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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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When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.
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Not out of those, on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out of unhandselled savage nature, out of terrible Druids and Berserkirs, come at last Alfred and Shakespeare.
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Every sweet has its sour every evil its good.
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There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works.
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Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.
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That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.
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Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind.
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The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not.
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The unbelief of the age is attested by the loud condemnation of trifles.
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Do your thing, and I shall know you.
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Genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
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Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.
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Some men, at the approach of a dispute, neigh like horses.
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No man can have society upon his own terms.
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For each thorn, there's a rosebud... For each twilight - a dawn... For each trial - the strength to carry on, For each storm cloud - a rainbow... For each shadow - the sun... For each parting - sweet memories when sorrow is done.
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Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape, and bodily exercise on the mind.
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O friend, never strike sail to a fear!
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Never read any book that is not a year old.
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Human beings cannot endure the geological chaos they encounter under the soil of their own gardens.
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In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, and go as brave as the zodiac.
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