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A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree.
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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What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects.
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I didn't find my friends the good Lord gave them to me.
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If you act, you show character if you sit still, you show it if you sleep you show it.
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People who know how to act are never preachers.
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Life has a way of demanding that you live it.
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
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Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.
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If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience.
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In the Fiji islands, it appears, cannibalism is now familiar. They eat thier own wives and children. We only devour widows' houses, and great merchants outwit and absorb the substance of small ones, and every man feeds on his neighbor's labor if he can. It is a milder form of cannibalism.
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Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new comer like a travelling geologist, who passes through our estate, and shows us good slate, or limestone, or anthracite, in our brush pasture.
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The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that, if you let it alone, it will let you alone.
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Thought is the seed of action but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in thought, to the end that it may be uttered and acted. Always in proportion to the depth of its sense does it knock importunately at the gates of the soul, to be spoken, to be done.
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We might as easily reprove the east wind, or the frost, as a political party, whose members, for the most part, could give no account of their position, but stand for the defence of those interests in which they find themselves.
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The peace of the man who has forsworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace, but a canting impotence.
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It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.
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The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite.
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When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near.
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The best part of health is fine disposition
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