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The man in the street does not know a star in the sky.
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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I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make that man another you. One's enough.
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Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health. The great will not condescend to take anything seriously all must be as gay as the song of a canary, though it were the building of cities, or the eradication of old and foolish churches and nations, which have cumbered the earth long thousands of years.
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The last change in our point of view gives the whole world a pictorial air.
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In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes.
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The masters painted for joy, and knew not that virtue had gone out of them. They could not paint the like in cold blood. The masters of English lyric wrote their songs so. It was a fine efflorescence of fine powers.
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Speak the affirmative emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject.
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Do your thing, and I shall know you.
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A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.
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Times of heroism are generally times of terror, but the day never shines in which this element may not work.
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If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it at any rate, brag.
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