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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
Waldo Emerson
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The value of a dollar is to buy just things a dollar goes on increasing in value with all the genius and all the virtue of the world. A dollar in a university is worth more than a dollar in a jail in a temperate, schooled, law-abiding community than in some sink of crime, where dice, knives, and arsenic are in constant play.
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Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.
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Say, what other metre is it Than the meeting of the eyes? Nature poureth into nature Through the channels of that feature Riding on the ray of sight, Fleeter far than whirlwinds go, Or for service, or delight, Hearts to hearts their meaning show.
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Is it not better to intimate our astonishment as we pass through this world if it be only for a moment ere we are swallowed up in the yeast of the abyss? I will lift up my hands and say Kosmos.
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Style is only the frame to hold your thoughts. It is like the sash of a window if heavy, it will obscure the light.
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People who know how to act are never preachers.
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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
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Test of the poet is knowledge of love, For Eros is older than Saturn or Jove Never was poet, of late or of yore, Who was not tremulous with love-lore.
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Stand guard at the portal of your mind.
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A home kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.
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We read often with as much talent as we write.
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Neither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair.
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