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Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

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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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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The shot heard round the world.
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When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.
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If men would avoid that general language and general manner in which they strive to hide all that is peculiar, and would say only what was uppermost in their own minds, after their own individual manner, every man would be interesting.
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We cannot let our angels go we do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in.
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Thou art to me a delicious torment.
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
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The people are to be taken in very small doses.
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The wings of Time are black and white, Pied with morning and with night.
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There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we must obey.
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I do not wish to please him I wish that he should wish to please me.
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The advantage of riches remains with him who procured them, not with the heir.
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The dearest events are summer-rain.
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The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatness, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.
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Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?
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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
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And dazzling memory revive.Refresh the faded tints, Recut the aged prints, And write my old adventures, with the pen Which, on the first day, drew Upon the tablets blue The dancing Pleiads, and the eternal men.
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The terrible tabulation of the French statists brings every piece of whim and humor to be reducible also to exact numerical ratios. If one man in twenty thousand, or in thirty thousand, eats shoes, or marries his grandmother, then, in every twenty thousand, or thirty thousand, is found one man who eats shoes, or marries his grandmother.
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No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton, Laplace, are not new men, or a new kind of men, but that Thales, Anaximenes, Hipparchus, Empodocles, Aristorchus, Pythagorus, Oenipodes, had anticipated them.
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Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.
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