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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.
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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But speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance. Speak the truth, and all things alive orbrute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.
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The beautiful is never plentiful.
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When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen.
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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.
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The education of the will is the object of our existence.
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And, in fine, the ancient precept, Know thyself, and the modern precept, Study nature, become at last one maxim.
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He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard.
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Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.
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