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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
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The beautiful laws of time and space, once dislocated by our inaptitude, are holes and dens. If the hive be disturbed by rash and stupid hands, instead of honey, it will yield us bees.
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Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it it does not unsettle him, or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles it is an act quite easy to be contemplated.
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The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.
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Society is the stage on which manners are shown novels are the literature. Novels are the journal or record of manners and the new importance of these books derives from the fact, that the novelist begins to penetrate the surface, and treat this part of life more worthily.
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I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.
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What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived
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In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.
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The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.
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Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts.
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Lawyers are a prudent race though not very fond of liberty.
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Genius always finds itself a century too early.
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There is always a best way of doing everything.
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Self-trust is the first secret of success, the belief that if you are here the authorities of the universe put you here, and for cause, or with some task strictly appointed you in your constitution, and so long as you work at that you are well and successful
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A weed is a plant whose virtue is not yet known.
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You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God you shall not have both.
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Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.
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A day is a miniature eternity.
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The private life of one man shall be a more illustrious monarchy,--more formidable to its enemy, more sweet and serene in its influence to its friend, than any kingdom in history. For a man, rightly viewed, comprehendeth the particular natures of all men.
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To a physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ.
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A nation never falls but by suicide.
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