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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 louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
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It is easy to see that what is best written or done by genius in the world, was no man's work but came by wide social labor, whena thousand wrought like one, sharing the same impulse.
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Our distrust is very expensive.
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Love is like wildflowers It's often found in the most unlikely places.
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Though thou loved her as thyself, As a self of purer clay, Tho' her parting dims the day, Stealing grace from all alive, Heartily know, When half-gods go, The gods arrive.
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Sentimentalists ... adopt whatever merit is in good repute, and almost make it hateful with their praise. The warmer their expressions, the colder we feel.... Cure the drunkard, heal the insane, mollify the homicide, civilize the Pawnee, but what lessons can be devised for the debauchee of sentiment?
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Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.
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Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
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As we refine, our checks become finer. If we rise to spiritual culture, the antagonism takes a spiritual form.
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Fate is unpenetrated causes.
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The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.
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The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.
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Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.
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Stand guard at the portal of your mind.
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We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.
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The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
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We read often with as much talent as we write.
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Gold and iron are good To buy iron and gold.
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The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. Nature never wears a mean appearance.
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Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
Ralph Waldo Emerson