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Beware of jokes from which we go away hollow and ashamed.
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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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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As long as any man exists, there is some need of him.
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I wish that friendship should have feet, as well as eyes and eloquence. It must plant itself on the ground, before it vaults overthe moon. I wish it to be a little of a citizen, before it is quite a cherub.
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[on Thoreau:] For not a particle of respect had he to the opinions of any man or body of men, but homage solely to truth itself.
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We take care of our health we lay up money we make our roof tight, and our clothing sufficient but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all, -friends?
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Who loses a day loses life.
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Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyph to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life before he apprehends it as truth.
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Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.
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He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.
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Man is made of the same atoms the world is, he shares the same impressions, predispositions, and destiny. When his mind is illuminated, when his heart is kind, he throws himself joyfully into the sublime order, and does, with knowledge, what the stones do by structure.
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Is there a difference? Yes. We are in harmony with nature, but never at peace.
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Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.
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The man in the street does not know a star in the sky.
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Nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
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It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive, the character, the secret self. We call the tree good from its fruits, and the man, from his works.
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There is always a best way of doing everything.
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Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man's vision of the future
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Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.
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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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Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?
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Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.
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