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The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
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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Rude poets of the tavern hearth, squandering your unquoted mirth, which keeps the ground, and never soars, while jake retorts, and reuben roars tough and screaming, as birch-bark, goes like bullet to its mark while the solid curse and jeer never balk the waiting ear.
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What is the hardest task in the world? To think.
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A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes, by his distastes, by the stories he tells, by his gait, by the notion of his eye, by the look of his house, of his chamber for nothing on earth is solitary but every thing hath affinities infinite.
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The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
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The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will, but pleasantly, and, as it were, merrily, he advancesto his own music, alike in frightful alarms and in the tipsy mirth of universal dissoluteness.
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It is better to suffer injustice than to do it.
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Thus grows up fashion, an equivocal semblance, the most puissant, the most fantastic and frivolous, the most feared and followed, and which morals and violence assault in vain.
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A cheerful, intelligent face is the end of culture.
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Yet America is a poem in our eyes its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
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I am the owner of the sphere, Of the seven stars and the solar year, of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain, Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakespeare's strain.
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Let us learn the meaning of economy. Economy is a high human office,--a sacrament when its aim is grand, when it is the prudence of simple tastes, when it is practised for freedom or for love or devotion.
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A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.
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The gentleman is a man of truth.
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It does not hurt weak eyes to look into beautiful eyes never so long.
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The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed.
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Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.
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I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-borne treasures home.
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Men are lenses through which we read our own minds.
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Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.
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