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The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, --/ Never read a book that is not a year old./ Never read any but the famed books./ Never read any but what you like.
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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Good criticism is very rare and always precious.
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All the elements, whose aid man calls in, will sometimes become big masters.
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Live in the sunshine.
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
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The soul is the perceiver and the revealer of truth.
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What we seek we shall find what we flee from flees from us.
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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Miracle comes to the miraculous, not to the arithmetician.
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I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.Instead of the gong for dinner, let us hear a whistle from the Spartan fife.
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The way of Providence is a little rude. The habit of snake and spider, the snap of the tiger and other leapers and bloody jumpers, the crackle of the bones of his prey in the coil of the anaconda-these are in the system, and our habits are like theirs.
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Romeo, of dead, should be cut up into little stars to make the heavens fine. Life, with this pair, has no other aim, asks no more,than Juliet,--than Romeo.
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When I behold a rich landscape, it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity.
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To be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false,--this is the mark and character of intelligence.
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