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My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation.
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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I think no virtue goes with size.
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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.
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It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated.
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Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.
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In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.
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Romeo, of dead, should be cut up into little stars to make the heavens fine. Life, with this pair, has no other aim, asks no more,than Juliet,--than Romeo.
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The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach that nature's dice are always loaded that in her heaps and rubbish are concealed sure and useful results.
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The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him.
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Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man.
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The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.
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No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.
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Speak the affirmative emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject.
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A great mind is a good sailor, as a great heart is.
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Life has a way of demanding that you live it.
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As men get on in life, they acquire a love for sincerity, and somewhat less solicitude to be lulled or amused. In the progress ofthe character, there is an increasing faith in the moral sentiment, and a decreasing faith in propositions.
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