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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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~ At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish. The knapsack of custom falls off his back. ~
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~ Plants are the young of the world. Vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect man, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground. ~
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~ Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within. ~
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~ He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. ~
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~ Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners. Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command. ~
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~ Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow. ~
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~ The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine. ~
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~ The judge weighs the arguments and puts a brave face on the matter, and since there must be a decision, decides as he can, and hopes he has done justice and given satisfaction to the community. ~
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~ To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in our private heart is for all men - that is genius. ~
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~ We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave actio” ~
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~ Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret. ~
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~ The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. ~
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~ We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears apples. ~
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~ It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. ~
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~ To be simple is to be great ~
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