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Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance.
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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Many a reformer perishes in his removal of rubbish,--and that makes the offensiveness of the class. They are partial they are notequal to the work they pretend. They lose their way in the assault on the kingdom of darkness, they expend all their energy on some accidental evil, and lose their sanity and power of benefit.
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Life itself is ... a sleep within a sleep.
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Any work looks wonderful to me except the one which I can do.
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Other world? There is no other world here or nowhere is the whole fact.
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Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.
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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.
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God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings, and, with each, therefore, a new idea, new inventions, and new applications.
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It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.
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Life has a way of demanding that you live it.
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Though we travel the world over to find beauty, we must carry it with us or we find it not . . . The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there is a great difference in beholders.
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Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life.
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Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.
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