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We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
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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The statue is then beautiful when it begins to be incomprehensible, when it is passing out of criticism, and can no longer be defined by compass and measuring-wand, but demands an active imagination to go with it, and to say what it is in the act of doing.
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The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
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The soul contains the event that shall befall it, for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts and what we pray to ourselves for is always granted.
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No facts to me are sacred none are profane.
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Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.
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Not always can flowers, pearls, poetry, protestations, nor even home in another heart, content the awful soul that dwells in clay.
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Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle everything else is an intrigue.
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The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.
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The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and of the newest philosophy, that man is one, and that you cannot injure any member, without a sympathetic injury to all the members
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Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown and distant star.
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Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
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The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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The forest is my loyal friend A Delphic shrine to me.
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