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Every thing admonishes us how needlessly long life is.
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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In England every man you meet is some man's son in America, he may be some man's father.
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Nature ever faithful is To such as trust her faithfulness.
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What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.
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The thief steals from himself. The swindler swindles himself. For the real price is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are signs. These signs, like paper money, may be counterfeited or stolen, but that which they represent, namely, knowledge and virtue, cannot be counterfeited or stolen.
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It is bad enough that our geniuses cannot do anything useful, but it is worse that no man is fit for society who has fine traits.He is admired at a distance, but he cannot come near without appearing a cripple.
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The crystal sphere of thought is as concentrical as the geological structure of the globe. As our soils and rocks lie in strata, concentric strata, so do all men's thinkings run laterally, never vertically.
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Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest when they are sick or aged. In the morning, or when their intellect or their conscience has been aroused, when they hear music, or when they read poetry, they are radicals.
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It is a sign of our times, conspicuous to the coarsest observer, that many intelligent and religious persons withdraw themselves from the common labors and competitions of the market and the caucus, and betake themselves to a certain solitary and critical way of living, from which no solid fruit has yet appeared to justify their separation.
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Thought makes everything fit for use.
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The poise of a plant, the bended tree recovering itself from the strong wind, the vital resources of every vegetable and animal, are also demonstrations of the self-sufficing, and therefore self-relying soul. All history from its highest to its trivial passages is the various record of this power.
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I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature.
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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Lose yourself in nature and find peace
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Obedience alone gives the right to command.
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That man is idle who can do something better.
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Therefore is nature ever the ally of Religion: lends her all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment.
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There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men.
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Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
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The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity.
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