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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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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There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.
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Every word was once a poem. Every new relation is a new word.
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Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet.
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People who wash much have a high mind about it, and talk down to those who wash little.
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Books are the best of things if well used if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.
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But we need not fear that we can lose any thing by the progress of the soul. The soul may be trusted to the end.
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If the king is in the palace, nobody looks at the walls. It is when he is gone, and the house is filled with grooms and gazers, that we turn from the people, to find relief in the majestic men that are suggested by the pictures and the architecture.
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As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.
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Music is the poor man's Parnassus.
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A man of no conversation should smoke.
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A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment and even obstacles and opposition will but make us like the fabled specter-ships, which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.
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We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
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The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.
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Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.
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A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.
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Science, Nature,-O, I've yearned to open some page.
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Do not craze yourself with thinking, but go about your business anywhere.
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He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand.
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I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.Instead of the gong for dinner, let us hear a whistle from the Spartan fife.
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A good indignation makes an excellent speech.
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