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Power and speed be hands and feet.
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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We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet. Thus, in his sonnets, the lays of birds, the scents and dyes of flowers, he finds to be the shadow of his beloved time, which keeps her from him, is his chest the suspicion she has awakened, is her ornament
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Eyes...They speak all languages.
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Men consort in camp and town But the poet dwells alone.
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A forte always makes a foible.
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Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.
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Let him be great, and love shall follow him. Nothing is more deeply punished than the neglect of the affinities by which alone society should be formed, and the insane levity of choosing associates by others eyes.
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Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.
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Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.
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I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly disparity between age and youth.
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If you take in a lie, you must take in all that belongs to it.
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Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat.
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What is the hardest task in the world? To think.
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Man was born to be rich, or to inevitably grow rich, by the use of his faculties: by the union of thought with nature.
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A friend is the hope of the heart.
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Every word was once a poem.
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Of immortality, the soul, when well employed, is incurious. It is so well, that it is sure that it will be well. It asks no questions of the Supreme Power.
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I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me.
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Dear to us are those who love us... but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances.
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The boxer's ring is the enjoyment of the part of society whose animal nature alone has been developed.
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The pulpit and the press have many commonplaces denouncing the thirst for wealth, but if men should take these moralists at their word, and leave off aiming to be rich, the moralists would rush to rekindle at all hazards this love of power in the people, lest civilization should be undone.
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