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We boil at different degrees.
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
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Some of your hurts you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you endured From evils which never arrived!
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Children are all foreigners.
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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in each man's skin, - seven or eight ancestors at least, - and they constitute the variety of notes for that new piece of music which his life is.
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Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.
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What you are comes to you.
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We are wiser than we know.
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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Language is the archives of history … Language is fossil poetry.
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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
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Good men must not obey the laws too well.
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And when his hours are numbered, and the world Is all his own, retiring, as he were not, Leaves, when the sun appears, astonished Art To mimic in slow structures, stone by stone Built in an age, the mad wind's night-work, The frolic architecture of the snow.
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
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Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
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Olympian bards who sung Divine Ideas below, Which always find us young, And always keep us so.
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It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
Ralph Waldo Emerson