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Who loses a day loses life.
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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Boston
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R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
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Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things?
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Make youself necessary to someone.
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One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.
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Why has my motley diary no jokes? Because it is a soliloquy and every man is grave alone.
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The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things, with commerce, government, church, marriage, and so with the history of every man's bread, and the ways by which he is to come by it.
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'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.
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I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.
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Nature, through all her kingdoms, insures herself.
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Mankind divides itself into two classes,--benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast the first a handful.
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