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Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?

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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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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The Greek epigram intimates that the force of love is not shown by the courting of beauty, but where the like desire is inflamed for one who is ill-favored.
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No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.
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If you meet a sectary, or a hostile partisan, never recognize the dividing lines but meet on what common ground remains,--if onlythat the sun shines, and the rain rains for both the area will widen very fast, and ere you know it the boundary mountains, on which the eye had fastened, have melted into air.
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What king has he not taught state, as Talma taught Napoleon? What maiden has not found him finer than her delicacy? What lover has he not outloved? What sage has he not outseen? What gentleman has he not instructed in the rudeness of his behavior?
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We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.
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It is about your outlook towards life. You can either regret or rejoice.
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There is always a best way of doing everything.
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Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new comer like a travelling geologist, who passes through our estate, and shows us good slate, or limestone, or anthracite, in our brush pasture.
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Behind us, as we go, all things assume pleasing forms, as clouds do far off. Not only things familiar and stale, but even the tragic and terrible, are comely, as they take their place in the pictures of memory.
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The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less imports the question of authorship.
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Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized now for two hundred years.
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Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.
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The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.
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The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home. We imitate and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind?
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Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.
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I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever inly rejoices me and the heart apoints.
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A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
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He in whom the love of truth predominates . . . submits to the inconvenience of suspense and imperfect opinion but he is a candidate for truth . . . and respects the highest law of his being.
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We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited.
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Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet.
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