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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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Solitude is naught and society is naught. Alternate them and the good of each is seen.
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Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it.
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We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.
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Action is the process whereby what is not fully formed passes into expressive consciousness.
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Immitation is suicide.
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A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
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To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.
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I like man, but not men.
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The craft with which the world is made runs also into the mind and character of men. No man is quite sane each has a vein of folly in his composition, a slight determination of blood to the head, to make sure of holding him hard to some one point which Nature has taken to heart.
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Go, speed the stars of Thought On to their shining goals - The sower scatters broad his seed, The wheat thou strew'st be souls.
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Beauty through my senses stole I yielded myself to the perfect whole.
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What we commonly call man, the eating, drinking, planting, counting man, does not, as we know him, represent himself, but misrepresents himself. Him we do not respect, but the soul, whose organ he is, would he let it appear through his action, would make our knees bend.
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior...
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Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens.
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I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.
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So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.
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