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The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses with heat puts whole drawing-rooms to flight. If you wish to be loved, love measure.
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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Man sheds grief as his skin sheds rain.
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When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.
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God has delegated himself to a million deputies.
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The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.
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The best conversation is rare. Society seems to have agreed to treat fictions as realities, and realities as fictions and the simple lover of truth, especially if on very high grounds, as a religious or intellectual seeker, finds himself a stranger and alien.
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A walk in the woods is only an exalted dream.
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I didn't find my friends the good Lord gave them to me.
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Speech is better than silence silence is better than speech.
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Without the great arts which speak to the sense of beauty, a man seems to me a poor, naked, shivering creature. These are his becoming draperies, which warm and adorn him.
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It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.
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Character is that which can do without success.
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