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When a man does not write his poetry, it escapes by other vents through him.
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
Waldo Emerson
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Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul. The spirit sports with time.
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How much better when the whole land is a garden, and the people have grown up in the bowers of a paradise.
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We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether... The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.
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Conformity is the ape of harmony.
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We ascribe beauty to that which is simple which has no superfluous parts which exactly answers its end which stands related to all things which is the mean of many extremes.
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Doing well is a result of doing good.
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In Nature, all is useful, all is beautiful
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God is our name for the last generalization to which we can arrive.
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Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?
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After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk.
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