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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 every landscape, the point of astonishment is the meeting of the sky and the earth, and that is seen from the first hillock aswell as from the top of the Alleghanies. The stars at night stoop down over the brownest, homeliest common, with all the spiritual magnificence which they shed on the Campagna, or on the marble deserts of Egypt.
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Life loiters at the book's first page,-- Ah! could we turn the leaf.
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Whatever events in progress shall disgust men with cities, and infuse into them the passion for country life, and country pleasures, will render a service to the whole face of this continent, and will further the most poetic of all the occupations of real life, the bringing out by art the native but hidden graces of the landscape.
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
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There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live.
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The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
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Empirical science is apt to cloud the sight, and, by the very knowledge of functions and processes, to bereave the student of themanly contemplation of the whole.
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Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.
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Surely nobody would be a charlatan, who could afford to be sincere.
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Nature hates calculators.
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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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A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.
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A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.
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How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.
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If any mention was made of homicide, madness, adultery, and intolerable tortures, we would let the church-bells ring louder, the church-organ swell its peal and drown the hideous sound. The sugar they raised was excellent: nobody tasted blood in it.
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Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
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Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.
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Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
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It is one of the biggest blessing that you can be stupid with your true friends and behave like you shame to do elsewhere
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I believe in Eternity. I can find Greece, Palestine, Italy, Spain, and the Islands, - the Genius and creative Principle of each and of all eras, in my own mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
