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We live ruins amid ruins.
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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No hope so bright but is the beginning of its own fulfilment.
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I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.
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We are always getting ready to live but never living.
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Housekeeping is not beautiful it cheers and raises neither the husband, the wife, nor the child neither the host nor the guestit oppresses women. A house kept to the end of prudence is laborious without joy a house kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.
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The American who has been confined, in his own country, to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter's at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are imitations also,--faint copies of an invisible archetype.
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Words are alive. Cut them and they bleed.
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All my hurts my garden spade can heal.
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As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.
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I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River, when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.
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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.
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A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for 10 minutes longer.
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If we follow the truth, it will bring us out safe at last.
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