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When it's dark enough men see stars.
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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The world exists for the education of each man.
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Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used.
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Do not fear to put novels into the hands of young people as an occasional holiday experiment, but above all, good poetry in all kinds,--epic, tragedy, lyric. If we can touch the imagination, we serve them they will never forget it.
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We read often with as much talent as we write.
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Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation. Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living in the mouths of me.
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Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.
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Homeopathy is insignificant as an act of healing, but of great value as criticism on the hygeia or medical practice of the time.
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Every man is a channel through which heaven floweth.
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But speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance. Speak the truth, and all things alive orbrute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.
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We must be courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.
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That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.
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The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence.
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A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant.
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You will think me very pedantic, gentlemen, but holiday though it may be, I have not the smallest interest in any holiday, except as it celebrates real and not pretended joys.
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Consistency is the bugbear that frightens little minds.
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The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.
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The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.
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Imitation cannot go above its model.
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Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
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When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen.
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