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The pleasure of eloquence is in greatest part owing often to the stimulus of the occasion which produces it- - to the magic of sympathy, which exalts the feeling of each by radiating on him the feeling of all.
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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Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth.
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There are eyes, to be sure, that give no more admission into the man than blueberries.
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The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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Good nature is stronger than tomahawks.
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Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.
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