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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), The American Scholar, August 31, 1837
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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Address on The Method of Nature, 1841
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The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Self-Reliance
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

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