| The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight. |
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- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Wit makes its own welcome and levels all distinctions. |
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- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| All history becomes subjective; in other words there is properly no history, only biography. |
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- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought - two boys pushing each other on the curbstone of the pavement. |
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- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients. |
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- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| People wish to be settled: only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them. |
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- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. |
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- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| We learn geology the morning after the earthquake. |
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- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. |
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- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose. |
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- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. |
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- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. |
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- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| A man's wife has more power over him than the state has. |
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- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in? |
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- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and a medicine. |
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- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. |
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- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed. |
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- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew! |
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- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Nature hates calculators. |
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- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| The sky is the daily bread of the eyes. |
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- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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