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Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
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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Is there a difference? Yes. We are in harmony with nature, but never at peace.
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Thought dissolves the material universe by carrying the mind up into a sphere where all is plastic.
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Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is. The first time you hear it, it sounds rather as if copied out of some invisible tablet in the Eternal mind than as if arbitrarily composed by the poet.
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In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes.
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All life is an experiment.
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We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man, man.
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Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.
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Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn.
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[D]ivine Providence... keeps the universe open in every direction to the soul.
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The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
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To be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false,--this is the mark and character of intelligence.
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Never read any book that is not a year old.
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Talent may frolic and juggle genius realizes and adds.
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Love is like wildflowers It's often found in the most unlikely places.
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A state of war or anarchy, in which law has little force, is so far valuable, that it puts every man on trial. The man of principle is known as such, and even in the fury of faction is respected.
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Invention breeds invention.
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Though we love goodness and not stealing, yet also we love freedom and not preaching.
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When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
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The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.
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