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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
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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Always the seer is a sayer. Somehow his dream is told somehow he publishes it with solemn joy: sometimes with pencil on canvas, sometimes with chisel on stone, sometimes in towers and aisles of granite, his soul's worship is builded sometimes in anthems of indefinite music, but clearest and most permanent, in words.
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Thought is the seed of action but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in thought, to the end that it may be uttered and acted. Always in proportion to the depth of its sense does it knock importunately at the gates of the soul, to be spoken, to be done.
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Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought for causes which are unpenetrated.
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The vanishing, volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is every moment converted into the adamantine.
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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.
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Your work should be in praise of what you love.
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There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
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The thief steals from himself. The swindler swindles himself. For the real price is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are signs. These signs, like paper money, may be counterfeited or stolen, but that which they represent, namely, knowledge and virtue, cannot be counterfeited or stolen.
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The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.
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The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.
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What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.
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The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.
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I do not speak with any fondness but the language of coolest history, when I say that Boston commands attention as the town whichwas appointed in the destiny of nations to lead the civilization of North America.
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The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions.
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The God who made New Hampshire Taunted the lofty land With little men.
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The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go.
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For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word, a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem.
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The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
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Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.
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