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A rush of thoughts is the only conceivable prosperity that can come to us.
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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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Life is unnecessarily long. Moments of insight, of fine personal relation, a smile, a glance,--what ample borrowers of eternity they are!
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I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and a medicine.
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Really, all things and persons are related to us, but according to our nature, they act on us not at once, but in succession, andwe are made aware of their presence one at a time. All persons, all things which we have known, are here present, and many more than we see the world is full.
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If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?
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He who does a good deed is instantly ennobled. He who does a mean deed is by the action itself contracted.
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What is the end of human life? It is not, believe me, the chief end of man that he should make a fortune and beget children whose end is likewise to make a fortune, but it is, in few words, that he should explore himself.
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No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.
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A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.
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Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.
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The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.
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There is a property in the horizon which no man has, but he whose eyes can integrate all the parts,--that is, the poet.
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I do not wish to please him I wish that he should wish to please me.
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You cannot institute, without peril of charlatanism.
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