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It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.
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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The Gods we worship write their names on our faces be sure of that. And a man will worship something ... That which dominates will determine his life and character. Therefore it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.
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The shot heard round the world.
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A beautiful woman is a practical poet.
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A healthy soul stands united with the Just and the True, as the magnet arranges itself with the pole, so that he stands to all beholders like a transparent object betwixt them and the sun, and whoso journeys towards the sun, journeys towards that person. He is thus the medium of the highest influence to all who are not on the same level.
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Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.
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The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry.
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As we refine, our checks become finer. If we rise to spiritual culture, the antagonism takes a spiritual form.
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I like man, but not men.
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Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons, where no friendship can be. Our impatience betrays us into rash and foolish alliances which no God attends.
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Want is a growing giant whom the coat of have was never large enough to cover.
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I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.
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As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.
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We fancy men are individuals so are pumpkins but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.
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All ages of belief have been great all of unbelief have been mean.
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There is no man of Nature's worth In the circle of the earth.
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I would study, I would know, I would admire forever.
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We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.
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