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Treat your friend as a spectacle.
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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We come to our own and would make friends with matter, which the ambitious chatter of the schools would persuade us to despise. We can never part with it the mind loves its old home: as water to our thirst, so is rock, the ground, to our eyes, and hands, and feet. It is firm water: it is cold flame: what health, what affinity!
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The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial speech.
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How much better when the whole land is a garden, and the people have grown up in the bowers of a paradise.
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A little fact is worth a whole limbo of dreams.
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All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.
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Every man is as lazy as he dares to be.
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I am a part and parcel of God.
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A rush of thoughts is the only conceivable prosperity that can come to us.
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Other world? There is no other world here or nowhere is the whole fact.
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Man was born to be rich, or to inevitably grow rich, by the use of his faculties: by the union of thought with nature.
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Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.
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