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Convert life into truth.
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
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The whole value of the dime is in knowing what to do with it.
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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
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Things bring their own philosophy with them, that is, prudence.
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The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
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Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.
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Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a great city, and no man knows what is safe, or where it will end.
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Sometimes we receive the power to say yes to life. Then peace enters us and makes us whole.
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I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.
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I unsettle all things.
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I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
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The desire of gold is not for gold. It is not the love of much wheat, and wool and household stuff. It is the means of freedom and benefit.
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Popularity is for dolls.
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The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things, with commerce, government, church, marriage, and so with the history of every man's bread, and the ways by which he is to come by it.
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Most people, who have quit smoking, have had at least one unsuccessful try in the past. It is not important how many times you try to quit. The only important thing is, that eventually you stay quit
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Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.
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Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.
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The gentleman is a man of truth, lord of his own actions, and expressing that lordship in his behavior, not in any manner dependent and servile either on persons, or opinions, or possessions.
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Money often costs too much, and power and pleasure are not cheap.
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