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An actually existing fly is more important than a possibly existing angel.
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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In daily life what distinguishes the master is the using those materials he has, instead of looking about for what are more renowned, or what others have used well.
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A gentleman makes no noise a lady is serene.
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Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used.
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A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.
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Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.
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Tis weak and vicious people who cast the blame on Fate. The right use of Fate is to bring up our conduct to the loftiness of nature.
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Manners have been somewhat cynically defined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance. Fashion is shrewd to detect those who do not belong to her train, and seldom wastes her attentions. Society is very swift in its instincts, and if you do not belong to it, resists and sneers at you, or quietly drops you.
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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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Every roof is agreeable to the eye, until it is lifted then we find tragedy and moaning women, and hard-eyed husbands.
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No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.
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The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time.
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A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
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The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all valid minds.
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What matters most is not what is behind us or before us, but what is within us.
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The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
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Women, more than all, are the element and kingdom of illusion. Being fascinated, they fascinate.
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Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
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If a man carefully examine his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead. Such a creature is probably immortal.
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Life is too short to waste . . . 'Twill soon be dark Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark!
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Women have a less accurate measure of time than men there is a clock in Adam, none in Eve.
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