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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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R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.
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Live in the sunshine.
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A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.
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What the tender and poetic youth dreams to-day, and conjures up with inarticulate speech, is to-morrow the vociferated result of public opinion, and the day after is the character of nations.
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The eye is the first circle the horizon which it forms is the second and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.
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It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.
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Genius has infused itself into nature. It indicates itself by a small excess of good, a small balance in brute facts always favorable to the side of reason.
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Slavery it is that makes slavery freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.
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Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.
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Body cannot teach wisdom God only.
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The eye is the best of artists.
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There are some men above grief and some men below it.
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When all shoot at one mark, the gods join in the combat.
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Self reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.
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Never lose an opportunity to see anything that is beautiful. It is God's handwriting a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower.
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