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Heaven is large, and affords space for all modes of love and fortitude.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
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R. W. Emerson
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I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labor and difficulty he has but to open his eyes to see things in a true light, and in large relations whilst they must make painful corrections, and keep a vigilant eye on many sources of error.
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When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.
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The power of a man increases steadily by continuing in one direction.
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The shows of the day, the dewy morning, the rainbow, mountains, orchards in blossom, stars, moonlight, shadows in still water, andthe like, if too eagerly hunted, become shows merely, and mock us with their unreality.
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It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made, that we exist
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A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.
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We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.
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Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.
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To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.
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I feel some unwillingness to quit the remembrance of the past. With all the hope of the new I feel that we are leaving the old.
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We are always getting ready to live, but never living... The wave moves onward but the particles of which it is composed do not... It cannot be but that at intervals throughout society there are real men intermixed . . . as the carpenter puts one iron bar in his bannister for every five or six wooden ones.
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Life is not intellectual or critical, but sturdy. Its chief good is for well-mixed people who can enjoy what they find, without question.
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To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.
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He in whom the love of truth predominates . . . submits to the inconvenience of suspense and imperfect opinion but he is a candidate for truth . . . and respects the highest law of his being.
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Who loses a day loses life.
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Such is the active power of good temperament! Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid.
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We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause.
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