American - Poet | May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882
Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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Beauty without expression is boring.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
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The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
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Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
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