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A forte always makes a foible.
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
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R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated.
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The have a good friend is one of the greatest delights of life.
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All reform aims, in some one particular, to let the soul have its way through us in other words, to engage us to obey.
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People only see what they are prepared to see. If you look for what is good and what you can be grateful for you will find it everywhere.
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Love is our highest word and the synonym of God.
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The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed.
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Whom God has put asunder, why should man put together?
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Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know
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Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.
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The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes.
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Pride eradicates all vices but itself.
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A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. A transcendent talent draws so largely on his forces as tolame him a defect pays him revenues on the other side.
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Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, and leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee.
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Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth. This limbo and dust-hole of thought is presided over by a certain reason, too.
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Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.
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It is one of the biggest blessing that you can be stupid with your true friends and behave like you shame to do elsewhere
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No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.
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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
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There is no man of Nature's worth In the circle of the earth.
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If in the least particular, one could derange the order of nature, who would accept the gift of life?
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