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Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot know.

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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Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses. What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true.
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Ever fresh the broad creation, A divine improvisation, From the heart of God proceeds, A single will, a million deeds.
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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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We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.
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I think the vice of our housekeeping is that it does not hold man sacred. The vice of government, the vice of education, the viceof religion, is one with that of the private life.
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Conformity is the ape of harmony.
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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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Pride ruined the angels, Their shame them restores And the joy that is sweetest Lurks in stings of remorse.
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When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence.
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If in the least particular, one could derange the order of nature, who would accept the gift of life?
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The eye is the first circle the horizon which it forms is the second and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.
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Pretension may sit still, but cannot act. Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness. Pretension never wrote an Iliad, nordrove back Xerxes, nor christianized the world, nor abolished slavery.
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