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Genius always finds itself a century too early.
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
Waldo Emerson
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The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect... it is the game of a rude and youthful people, and not the manly labour of a wise and spiritual nation.
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The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people.
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It is not the irregular hours or irregular diet that makes the romantic life.
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All things are moral and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature.
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The idealism of Berkeley is only a crude statement of the idealism of Jesus, and that again is a crude statement of the fact thatall nature is the rapid efflux of goodness executing and organizing itself.
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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
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He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard.
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Men do not believe in the power of education. We do not think we can speak to divine sentiments in man, and we do not try. We renounce all high aims.
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The mark of a man of the world is absence of pretension.
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I think no virtue goes with size.
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Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our own spontaneous expression with good humored inflexibility whether the whole cry of voices is on the other side.
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Sitting back in the evening, stargazing and stroking your dog, is an infallible remedy.
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Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man's vision of the future
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We live ruins amid ruins.
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We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves.
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All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.
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The day is always his, who works in it with serenity and great aims.
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Proverbs, words, and grammar inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision, than the wisest individual.
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Immitation is suicide.
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Go, speed the stars of Thought On to their shining goals - The sower scatters broad his seed, The wheat thou strew'st be souls.
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