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In a world of infinite choice people are struggling to figure out what to do.
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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I think all men know better than they do know that the institutions we so volubly commend are go-carts and baubles but they darenot trust their presentiments.
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The way of Providence is a little rude. The habit of snake and spider, the snap of the tiger and other leapers and bloody jumpers, the crackle of the bones of his prey in the coil of the anaconda-these are in the system, and our habits are like theirs.
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Do not spill thy soul in running hither and yon, grieving over the mistakes and the vices of others. The one person whom it is most necessary to reform is yourself.
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Some men, at the approach of a dispute, neigh like horses.
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Who loses a day loses life.
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Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
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Under every deep a lower deep opens.
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Alas for America as I must so often say, the ungirt, the diffuse, the profuse, procumbent, one wide ground juniper, out of which no cedar, no oak will rear up a mast to the clouds! It all runs to leaves, to suckers, to tendrils, to miscellany. The air is loaded with poppy, with imbecility, with dispersion, & sloth.
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All ages of belief have been great all of unbelief have been mean.
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Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands.
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We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.
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In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.
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To clothe the fiery thought In simple words succeeds, For still the craft of genius is To mask a king in weeds.
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Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
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No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.
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The Buddhist, who thanks no man, who says Do not flatter your benefactors, but who, in his conviction that every good deed can by no possibility escape its reward, will not deceive the benefactor by pretending that he has done more than he should, is a Transcendentalist.
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Where do we find ourselves? In a series of which we do not know the extremes, and believe that it has none. We wake and find ourselves on a stair there are stairs below us, which we seem to have ascended there are stairs above us, many a one, which go upward and out of sight.
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The soul lets no man go without some visitations and holy-days of a diviner presence.
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Away with this hurrah of masses, and let us have the considerate vote of single men.
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The age of puberty is a crisis in the age of man worth studying. It is the passage from the unconscious to the conscious from thesleep of passions to their rage.
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