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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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Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and that state of the mind can only be described by presenting that natural appearance as its picture.
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There is always a best way of doing everything.
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The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of the Universe. The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy. It is, to spend for power, and not for pleasure.
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There is really no insurmountable barrier save your own inherent weakness of purpose.
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He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.
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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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When there is sympathy, there needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise,--so, a blockhead makes a blockhead of his companion. Wonderful power to benumb possesses this brother.
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I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.
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Thought is the blossom language the bud action the fruit behind it.
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I DO not count the hours I spend In wandering by the sea The forest is my loyal friend, Like God it useth me.
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A work of art is an abstract or epitome of the world. It is the result or expression of nature, in miniature. For, although the works of nature are innumerable and all different, the result or the expression of them all is similar and single.
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Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer.
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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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Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty,--familiarity with danger enabling him to estimate the danger. He sees how much is the risk, and is not afflicted with imagination knows practically Marshal Saxe's rule, that every soldier killed costs the enemy his weight in lead.
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Nature ever faithful is To such as trust her faithfulness.
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There is a remedy for every wrong and a satisfaction for every soul.
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Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.
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The simplest words,--we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire.
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The art of conversation, or the qualification for a good companion, is a certain self-control, which now holds the subject, now lets it go, with a respect for the emergencies of the moment.
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Duty grows everywhere--like children, like grass.
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