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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 mark of a man of the world is absence of pretension.
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Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
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Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day.
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Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
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Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.
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The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.
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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.
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I will not hide my tastes or aversions. If you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your companions I will seek my own.
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Tis the good reader that makes the good book in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart.
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Art is a jealous mistress.
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Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.
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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.
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Obedience alone gives the right to command.
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Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar’s dinner, from a hundred charities?
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Nature forever puts a premium on reality. What is done for effect is seen to be done for effect what is done for love is felt to be done for love. A man inspires affection and honor because he was not lying in wait for these.
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Greatness once and forever has down with opinion.
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Almost every man we meet requires some civility requires to be humored - he has some fame, some talent, some whim of religion or philanthropy in his head that is not to be questioned, and which spoils all conversation with him. But a friend is a sane man who exercises not my ingenuity, but me.
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What is the hardest task in the world? To think.
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Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
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A home kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.
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