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I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast.
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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Housekeeping is not beautiful it cheers and raises neither the husband, the wife, nor the child neither the host nor the guestit oppresses women. A house kept to the end of prudence is laborious without joy a house kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.
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Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole and once it has done so, he/she will have to accept that his life will be radically changed.
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Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it.
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The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct.
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Are you not scared by seeing that the gypsies are more attractive to us than the apostles?
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Life itself is ... a sleep within a sleep.
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You cannot give anything to a magnanimous person. After you have served him, he at once puts you in debt by his magnanimity.
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It is one soul which animates all men.
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When a thought of Plato becomes a thought to me,--when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine, time is no more. When I feel that we two meet in a perception, that our two souls are tinged with the same hue, and do as it were run into one, why should I measure degrees of latitude, why should I count Egyptian years?
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As every pool reflects the image of the sun, so every thought and thing restores us an image and creature of the supreme Good. Theuniverse is perforated by a million channels for his activity. All things mount and mount.
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The days come and go but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.
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There is always a best way of doing everything.
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We live ruins amid ruins.
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The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of the Universe. The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy. It is, to spend for power, and not for pleasure.
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It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.
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Lose yourself in nature and find peace
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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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Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.
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In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.
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The way to mend the bad world is to create the right world.
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