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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
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Any relation to the land, the habit of tilling it, or mining it, or even hunting on it, generates the feeling of patriotism. He who keeps shop on it, or he who merely uses it as a support to his desk and ledger, or to his manufactory, values it less.
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The clergyman who lives in the city may have piety, but he must have taste.
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Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, of the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board.
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We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.
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Man is the dwarf of himself.
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Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.
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Instead of making Christianity a vehicle of truth, you make truth only a horse for Christianity.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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[A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand.
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To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.
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What you persist in doing gets easier. The task hasn't changed, but your ability to do it has increased.
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We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.
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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
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Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.
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But the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of the market had induced to build towns. Agriculture therefore was a religious injunction, because of the perils of the state from nomadism.
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How can he [today's writer] be honored, when he does not honor himself when he loses himself in the crowd when he is no longer the lawgiver, but the sycophant, ducking to the giddy opinion of a reckless public.
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