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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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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
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The highest compact we can make with our fellow is - Let there be truth between us two forevermore.
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We shun the rugged battle of fate where strength is born.
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Really, all things and persons are related to us, but according to our nature, they act on us not at once, but in succession, andwe are made aware of their presence one at a time. All persons, all things which we have known, are here present, and many more than we see the world is full.
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In the actual world--the painful kingdom of time and place--dwell care, and canker, and fear. With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy.
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For, the advantages which fashion values, are plants which thrive in very confined localities, in a few streets, namely. Out of this precinct, they go for nothing are of no use in the farm, in the forest, in the market, in war, in the nuptial society, in the literary or scientific circle, at sea, in friendship, in the heaven of thought or virtue.
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Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth. This limbo and dust-hole of thought is presided over by a certain reason, too.
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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Learn from it... tomorrow is a new day.
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It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.
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God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings, and, with each, therefore, a new idea, new inventions, and new applications.
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In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.
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We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves.
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I suppose you could never explain to the most ingenous molusk that such a creature as a whale existed.
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All power is of one kind, a sharing of the nature of the world. The mind that is parallel with the laws of nature will be in the current of events, and strong with their strength.
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The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.
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It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book.
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Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding
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We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.
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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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