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Our opinions of the world, are confessions of character.
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 hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
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Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.
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Great conversation ... requires an absolute running of two souls into one.
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In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present estate.
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Although this garrulity of advising is born with us, I confess that life is rather a subject of wonder, than of didactics. So muchfate, so much irresistible dictation from temperament and unknown inspiration enter into it, that we doubt we can say anything out of our own experience whereby to help each other.
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We put our love where we have put our labor.
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The walking of Man is falling forwards.
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Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts.
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I think the vice of our housekeeping is that it does not hold man sacred. The vice of government, the vice of education, the viceof religion, is one with that of the private life.
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Pride ruined the angels, Their shame them restores And the joy that is sweetest Lurks in stings of remorse.
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Every word we speak is million-faced or convertible to an indefinite number of applications. If it were not so we could read no book. Your remark would only fit your case, not mine.
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Plant your DREAMS and miracles will grow.
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Beauty through my senses stole I yielded myself to the perfect whole.
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
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It is time to be old To take in sail.
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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
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