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A beautiful woman is a practical poet.
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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Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is, on so many occasions, of chief importance,--a certain robust and radiant physical health or--shall I say?--great volumes of animal heat.
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Tis the privilege of Art Thus to play its cheerful part, Man on earth to acclimate And bend the exile to his fate.
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The South-wind brings Life, sunshine and desire, And on every mount and meadow Breathes aromatic fire But over the dead he has no power, The lost, the lost, he cannot restore And, looking over the hills, I mourn The darling who shall not return.
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Our prayers are prophets.
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The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself is to quote one.
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That man is idle who can do something better.
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Examples are cited by soldiers, of men who have seen the cannon pointed, and the fire given to it, and who have stepped aside from he path of the ball. The terrors of the storm are chiefly confined to the parlour and the cabin.
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That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.
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Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.
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Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?
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The ocean is a large drop a drop is a small ocean.
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But hospitality must be for service, and not for show, or it pulls down the host. The brave soul rates itself too high to value itself by the splendor of its table and draperies. It gives what it hath, and all it hath, but its own majesty can lend a better grace to bannocks and fair water than belong to city feasts.
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Beauty brings its own fancy price, for all that a man hath will he give for his love.
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The influence of fine scenery, the presence of mountains, appeases our irritations and elevates our friendships.
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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false statement I could never stay there five minutes. But why come out? The streetis as false as the church, and when I get to my house, or to my manners, or to my speech, I have not got away from the lie.
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Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State.
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The mass are animal, in pupilage, and near chimpanzee.
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Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.
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