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Every thing admonishes us how needlessly long life is.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.97, Penguin

The forest waves, the morning breaks, The pastures sleep, ripple the lakes, Leaves twinkle, flowers like persons be And life pulsates in rock or tree.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.59, Рипол Классик

[A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2650, Delphi Classics

The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.132, Harvard University Press

What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

Life only avails, not the having lived.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.126, Penguin

Life loiters at the book's first page,-- Ah! could we turn the leaf.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Emerson: Poems”, p.136, Everyman's Library

I would study, I would know, I would admire forever.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Nature: Addresses, and Lectures”, p.116

Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.460

Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Poetry and Imagination”, p.42, Editora Dracaena

A ruddy drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs; The world uncertain comes and goes, The lover rooted stays.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.339, Library of America

Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.46, Coyote Canyon Press

Venus, when her son was lost, Cried him up and down the coast, In hamlets, palaces, and parks, And told the truant by his marks,- Golden curls, and quiver, and bow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.135, Delphi Classics

Life is a series of surprises.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.483, Library of America

Life is a boundless privilege, and when you pay for your ticket, and get into the car, you have no guess what good company you shall find there.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.139, Harvard University Press

Every man is eloquent once in his life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.30, Harvard University Press

Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.42, Courier Corporation

The life of man is a self-evolving circle.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

Life is a search after power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations