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A great mind is a good sailor, as a great heart is.
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 universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest.
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The Roman rule was, to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing. The old English rule was, All summer in the field, and all winter in the study. And it seems as if a man should learn to plant, or to fish, or to hunt, that he might secure his subsistence at all events, and not be painful to his friends and fellow men.
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Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools. A wise man will see that Aristotle platonizes.
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An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have the propensity to look for the good in every situation.
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In daily life what distinguishes the master is the using those materials he has, instead of looking about for what are more renowned, or what others have used well.
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The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
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There is a tendency in things to right themselves, and the war or revolution or bankruptcy that shatters rotten system, allows things to take a new and natural order.
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Yourself a newborn bard of the Holy Ghost, cast behind you all conformity, and acquaint men at first hand with Deity.
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Labor is God's education.
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The near explains the far. The drop is a small ocean. A man is related to all nature. This perception of the worth of the vulgar is fruitful in discoveries. Goethe, in this very thing the most modern of the moderns, has shown us, as none ever did, the genius of the ancients.
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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
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Our opinions of the world, are confessions of character.
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Men are what their mothers made them. You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckabuck why it does not make cashmere as to expect poetry from this engineer or a chemical discovery from that jobber.
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The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must be writ is musty the next day.
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We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.
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Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Subjectiveness,--these are the threads on the loom of time, these are the lords of life.
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Practice makes perfect - the sooner you start, the sooner you will be a happy nonsmoker
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All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.
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In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity.
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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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