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Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.
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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The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.
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Beside all the small reasons we assign, there is a great reason for the existence of every extant fact a reason which lies grandand immovable, often unsuspected behind it in silence.
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Earth's a howling wilderness, Truculent with fraud and force.
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It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book.
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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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I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victimized in being brought hither?--or, prior to that, answer me this, Are you victimizable?
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Teach the children! It is painting in fresco.
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I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called history is.
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Get Health. No labor, effort nor exercise that can gain it must be grudged.
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People seem sheathed in their tough organization.
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The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.
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There are days when the great are near us, when there is no frown on their brow, no condescension even when they take us by the hand, and we share their thought.
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Out of sleeping a waking, Out of waking a sleep.
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Men are better than this theology.
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Oh, be my friend, and teach me to be thine!
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My good hoe as it bites the ground revenges my wrongs, and I have less lust to bite my enemies. In the smoothing the rough hillocks, I smooth my temper.
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The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence.
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