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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
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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All necessary truth is its own evidence.
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A determined man, by his very attitude and the tone of his voice, puts a stop to defeat, and begins to conquer.
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Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and grow up slaves.
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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.
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Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.
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It is easy to see that what is best written or done by genius in the world, was no man's work but came by wide social labor, whena thousand wrought like one, sharing the same impulse.
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Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul
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I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.
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I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. How far off, how cool, how chaste the persons look,begirt each one with a precinct or sanctuary!
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To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same fields, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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People only see what they are prepared to see. If you look for what is good and what you can be grateful for you will find it everywhere.
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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.
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Religion must always be a crab fruit it cannot be grafted, and keep its wild beauty.
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Out of sleeping a waking, Out of waking a sleep.
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The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.
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The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.
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There is a tendency in things to right themselves, and the war or revolution or bankruptcy that shatters rotten system, allows things to take a new and natural order.
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