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I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
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
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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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Man is the dwarf of himself.
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All are needed by each one Nothing is fair or good alone.
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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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Money often costs too much, and power and pleasure are not cheap.
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We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.
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Alas for America as I must so often say, the ungirt, the diffuse, the profuse, procumbent, one wide ground juniper, out of which no cedar, no oak will rear up a mast to the clouds! It all runs to leaves, to suckers, to tendrils, to miscellany. The air is loaded with poppy, with imbecility, with dispersion, & sloth.
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Without the great arts which speak to the sense of beauty, a man seems to me a poor, naked, shivering creature. These are his becoming draperies, which warm and adorn him.
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Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.
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For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word, a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem.
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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.
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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
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Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.
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And, in fine, the ancient precept, Know thyself, and the modern precept, Study nature, become at last one maxim.
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The powers of the Soul are commensurate with its needs.
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When the gods come among men, they are not known.
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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.
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Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions.
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Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may well call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate.
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Live well, learn plenty, laugh often, love much.
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