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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
Waldo Emerson
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All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. We quote not only books and proverbs, but arts, sciences, religion, customs, and laws nay, we quote temples and houses, tables and chairs, by imitation.
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Look out! Behind you!
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The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.
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Ever fresh the broad creation, A divine improvisation, From the heart of God proceeds, A single will, a million deeds.
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That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.
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If the race is good, so is the place.
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Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.
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Do what you know and perception is converted into character.
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America is a country of young men.
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But the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of the market had induced to build towns. Agriculture therefore was a religious injunction, because of the perils of the state from nomadism.
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Good nature is stronger than tomahawks.
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It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience, and makes the world he lives in.
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When all shoot at one mark, the gods join in the combat.
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In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
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The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.
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There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men.
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We animate what we can see, and we see only what we animate.
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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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The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.
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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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