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It's a luxury to be understood.
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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Knowledge is when you learn something new every day. Wisdom is when you let something go every day.
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Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.
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Words are alive. Cut them and they bleed.
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The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things, with commerce, government, church, marriage, and so with the history of every man's bread, and the ways by which he is to come by it.
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It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu, and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result. These samples attested the virtue of the tree.
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The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
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The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go.
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A man builds a fine house and now he has a master, and a task for life.
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Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.
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A state of war or anarchy, in which law has little force, is so far valuable, that it puts every man on trial. The man of principle is known as such, and even in the fury of faction is respected.
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To a physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ.
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Great conversation ... requires an absolute running of two souls into one.
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Good nature is stronger than tomahawks.
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There is always safety in valor.
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Books are the best of things if well used if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.
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Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the law-giver is before the law-receiver.
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All power is of one kind, a sharing of the nature of the world. The mind that is parallel with the laws of nature will be in the current of events, and strong with their strength.
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Every opinion reacts on him who utters it.
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Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.
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Wise men are not wise at all times.
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