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The universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest.
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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The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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An actually existing fly is more important than a possibly existing angel.
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When there is sympathy, there needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise,--so, a blockhead makes a blockhead of his companion. Wonderful power to benumb possesses this brother.
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
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Life is in short cycles or periods we are quickly tired, but we have rapid rallies. A man is spent by his work, starved, prostrate he will not lift his hand to save his life he can never think more. He sinks into deep sleep and wakes with renewed youth, with hope, courage, fertile in resources, and keen for daring adventure.
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Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.
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The desire of gold is not for gold. It is not the love of much wheat, and wool and household stuff. It is the means of freedom and benefit.
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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
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Draw, if thou canst, the mystic line, Severing rightly his from thine, Which is human, which divine.
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The advantage of riches remains with him who procured them, not with the heir.
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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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Without the great arts which speak to the sense of beauty, a man seems to me a poor, naked, shivering creature. These are his becoming draperies, which warm and adorn him.
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What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy only the precursor of the reason.
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The eye is the first circle the horizon which it forms is the second and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.
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New York is a sucked orange. All conversation is at an end, when we have discharged ourselves of a dozen personalities, domestic or imported, which make up our American existence.
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Our thinking is a pious reception.
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