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Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life.
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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How silent, how spacious, what room for all, yet without place to insert an atom--in graceful succession, in equal fullness, in balanced beauty, the dance of the hours goes forward still. Like an odor of incense, like a strain of music, like a sleep, it is inexact and boundless. It will not be dissected, nor unraveled, nor shown.
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Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.
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All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.
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Necessity does everything well.
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Congratulate yourself if you have done something strange, extravagant and broken the monotony.
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The frost which kills the harvest of a year saves the harvest of a century, by destroying the weevil or the locust.
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What is the end of human life? It is not, believe me, the chief end of man that he should make a fortune and beget children whose end is likewise to make a fortune, but it is, in few words, that he should explore himself.
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We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.
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What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy only the precursor of the reason.
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Man is the dwarf of himself.
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If you don't ride in the rain, you don't ride.
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The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health he must be at the top of his condition.
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Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.
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Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.
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Nature encourages no looseness pardons no errors.
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A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg , and his whole body to irresistible destruction.
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There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep.
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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Conversation is a game of circles.
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Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman - repose in energy. The Greek battle pieces are calm the heroes, in whatever violent actions engaged, retain a serene aspect.
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