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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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A great mind is a good sailor, as a great heart is.
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God is our name for the last generalization to which we can arrive.
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I am Defeated all the time, yet to Victory I am born.
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When a dog is chasing after you, whistle for him.
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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions.
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A good indignation makes an excellent speech.
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Good nature is stronger than tomahawks.
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A beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures it is the finest of fine arts.
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There is no man of Nature's worth In the circle of the earth.
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When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen.
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The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health he must be at the top of his condition.
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A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home and look up his manuscripts to know.
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