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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
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Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the law-giver is before the law-receiver.
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A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you are not yourself. Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason. Know this to be the enemy: it is anger, born of desire.
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The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses.
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Immitation is suicide.
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The borrower runs in his own debt.
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Every day, a little sadder, a little madder. Will someone get me a ladder?
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In the country, without any interference from the law, the agricultural life favors the permanence of families.
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These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a god- like ease and power.
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The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.
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The pulpit and the press have many commonplaces denouncing the thirst for wealth, but if men should take these moralists at their word, and leave off aiming to be rich, the moralists would rush to rekindle at all hazards this love of power in the people, lest civilization should be undone.
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Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man.
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Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.
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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
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I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality.
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By virtue of the Deity thought renews itself inexhaustibly every day and the thing whereon it shines, though it were dust and sand, is a new subject with countless relations.
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Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.
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Such is the active power of good temperament! Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid.
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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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The intellect,-that is miraculous! Who has it, has the talisman: his skin and bones, though they were of the color of night, are transparent, and the everlasting stars shine through, with attractive beams.
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