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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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~ God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please - you can never have both ~
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~ Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought. ~
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~ Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world. ~
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~ The less government we have the better ~
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~ The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them. ~
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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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~ All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through LUXURY of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive. ~
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~ Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions; nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a century, and dwarfs an age to an hour. ~
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~ When the boys come into my yard for leave to gather horse-chestnuts, I own I enter into nature's game, and affect to grant the permission reluctantly, fearing that any moment they will find out the imposture of that showy chaff. But this tenderness is quite unnecessary; the enchantments are laid on very thick. Their young life is thatched with them. Bare and grim to tears is the lot of the children in the hovel I saw yesterday; yet not the less they hang it round with frippery romance, like the children of the happiest fortune. ~
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~ What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. ~
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~ The only true gift is a portion of yourself. ~
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~ The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship. ~
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~ To laugh often and love much... to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self... this is to have succeeded. ~
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~ Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as two sides of an algebraic equation. ~
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~ Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in. ~
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