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Life is too short to waste.
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 Times are the masquerade of the eternities trivial to the dull, tokens of noble and majestic agents to the wise the receptacle in which the Past leaves its history the quarry out of which the genius of today is building up the Future.
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The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
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It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu, and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result. These samples attested the virtue of the tree.
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The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes.
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I give you joy of your free and brave thought. I have great joy in it. I find incomparable things said incomparably well, as they must be. I find the courage of treatment which so delights us, and which large perception only can inspire.
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Let him be great, and love shall follow him. Nothing is more deeply punished than the neglect of the affinities by which alone society should be formed, and the insane levity of choosing associates by others eyes.
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I take this evanescence and lubricity of all objects, which lets them slip through our fingers then when we clutch hardest, to be the most unhandsome part of our condition.
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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
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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 God who made New Hampshire Taunted the lofty land With little men.
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Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.
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People seem sheathed in their tough organization.
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Napoleon said of Massena, that he was not himself until the battle began to go against him then, when the dead began to fall in ranks around him, awoke his powers of combination, and he put on terror and victory as a robe.
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If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect.
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In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.
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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
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Divine persons are character born, or, to borrow a phrase from Napoleon, they are victory organized.
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