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Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
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R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.
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Spurious prudence, making the senses final, is the god of sots and cowards, and is the subject of all comedy. It is nature's joke, and therefore literature's. True prudence limits this sensualism by admitting the knowledge of an internal and real world.
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Human character evermore publishes itself. The most fugitive deed and word, the intimated purpose, express character.
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By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause.
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Don't set out to teach theism from your natural history... You spoil both.
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The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.
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It is one soul which animates all men.
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But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on our population where all the millions read and write ? It is the joy of nations that man can communicate all his thoughts, discoveries and virtues to records that may last for centuries.
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In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it.
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Neither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair.
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Every man is the inlet and may become the outlet of all there is in God.
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By the irresistible maturing of the general mind, the Christian traditions have lost their hold.
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To be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false,--this is the mark and character of intelligence.
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All necessary truth is its own evidence.
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Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare.
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A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price.
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The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.
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The right eloquence needs no bell to call the people together, and no constable to keep them.
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