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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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The noblest ministry of nature is to stand as the apparition of God.
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The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those perverse tendencies and gloomy insanities in which fine intellects sometimes lose themselves. A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still convertible. If that sense is lost, his fellow-men can do little for him.
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There is a remedy for every wrong and a satisfaction for every soul.
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My companion assumes to know my mood and habit of thought, and we go on from explanation to explanation, until all is said that words can, and we leave matters just as they were at first, because of that vicious assumption.
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Now every one must do after his kind, be he asp or angel, and these must.
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Find the journey's end in every step.
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Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.
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Go, speed the stars of Thought On to their shining goals - The sower scatters broad his seed, The wheat thou strew'st be souls.
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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A day is a miniature eternity.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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One thing is forever good That one thing is Success.
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If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing.
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It is one of the biggest blessing that you can be stupid with your true friends and behave like you shame to do elsewhere
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The great make its feel, first of all, the indifference of circumstances. They call into activity the higher perceptions, and subdue the low habits of comfort and luxury but the higher perceptions find their objects everywhere only the low habits need palaces and banquets.
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A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill.
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I will no longer confer, differ, refer, defer, prefer, or suffer. I renounce the whole tribe of fero. I embrace absolute life.
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The world is always childish, and with each new gewgaw of a revolution or new constitution that it finds, thinks it shall never cry any more.
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The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct.
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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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