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Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims.
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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There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are a transfusion takes place he is you, and you are he then is a teaching and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever lose the benefit.
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Those who have ruled human destinies, like planets, for thousands of years, were not handsome men.
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The lover of letters loves power too.
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And dazzling memory revive.Refresh the faded tints, Recut the aged prints, And write my old adventures, with the pen Which, on the first day, drew Upon the tablets blue The dancing Pleiads, and the eternal men.
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Every man believes he has a greater possibility.
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Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again.
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The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.
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Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart!-it seems to say,-there is victory yet for all justice and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.
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Fear God, and where you go men shall think they walk in hallowed cathedrals.
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The vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation. What would be base, or even obscene, to the obscene, becomes illustrious, spoken in a new connexion of thought.
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Happy is the house that shelters a friend.
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The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all valid minds.
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Some eyes threaten like a loaded and levelled pistol, and others are as insulting as hissing or kicking some have no more expression than blueberries, while others are as deep as a well which you can fall into.
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Love is like a hunter, who cares not for the game when once caught, which he may have pursued with the most intense and breathless eagerness. Love is strongest in pursuit friendship in possession.
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The French woman says, 'I am a woman and a Parisienne, and nothing foreign to me appears altogether human.'
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Mankind divides itself into two classes,--benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast the first a handful.
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For all symbols are fluxional all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.
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If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect.
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Life loiters at the book's first page,-- Ah! could we turn the leaf.
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Sleep is not, death is not Who seem to die Live. House you were born in, Friends of your spring-time, old man and young maid, Day's toil and it's guerdon, They are all vanishing, Fleeing to fables, Cannot be moored
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