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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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Essayist
Philosopher
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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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If you follow the suburban fashion in building a sumptuous- looking house for a little money, it will appear to all eyes as a cheap, dear house.
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What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health.
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Whatever we think and say is wonderfully better for our spirits and trust in another mouth.
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Lawyers are a prudent race though not very fond of liberty.
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Vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last,--a long way leading nowhere.
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Skepticism? Yes, but a saint is a skeptic once in twenty-four hours.
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A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.
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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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The Roman rule was, to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing. The old English rule was, All summer in the field, and all winter in the study. And it seems as if a man should learn to plant, or to fish, or to hunt, that he might secure his subsistence at all events, and not be painful to his friends and fellow men.
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Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
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The affections cannot keep their youth any more than men.
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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.
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We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul.
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Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat.
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There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.
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The key to every man is his thought.
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A man in debt is so far a slave.
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One of our statesmen said, The curse of this country is eloquent men.
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There are two laws discreteNot reconciled,Law for man, and law for thing.
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Treat your friend as a spectacle.
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