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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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Life is an ecstasy. Life is sweet as nitrous oxide.
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Luckily for us, now that steam has narrowed the Atlantic to a strait, the nervous, rocky West is intruding a new and continental element into the national mind, as we shall yet have an American genius.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot know.
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The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial speech.
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There comes a time in each man's education in which he comes to the conclusion that envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide, and society in in conspiracy against each one of its members.
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And striving to be Man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.
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There is really no insurmountable barrier save your own inherent weakness of purpose.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling.
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Education should be as broad as man.
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Teach the children! It is painting in fresco.
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The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite.
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The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.
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Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar’s dinner, from a hundred charities?
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The world exists for the education of each man.
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Thus is man made equal to every event. He can face danger for the right. A poor, tender, painful body, he can run into flame or bullets or pestilence, with duty for his guide.
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Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
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If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?
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How much better when the whole land is a garden, and the people have grown up in the bowers of a paradise.
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A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
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The people are to be taken in very small doses.
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