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I covet truth beauty is unripe childhood's cheat I leave it behind with the games of youth.
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
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All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man has taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.
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We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether... The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.
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That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.
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Man is a piece of the universe made alive
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The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.
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Among the multitude of scholars and authors, we feel no hallowing presence we are sensible of a knack and skill rather than of inspiration they have a light, and know not whence it comes, and call it their own their talent is some exaggerated faculty, some overgrown member, so that their strength is a disease.
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There is a principle which is the basis of things, which all speech aims to say, and all action to evolve, a simple, quiet, undescribed, undescribable presence, dwelling very peacefully in us, our rightful lord: we are not to do, but to let do not to work, but to be worked upon.
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Whilst all the world is in pursuit of power, culture corrects the theory of success.
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Doing well is a result of doing good.
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Men are better than this theology.
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Whatever appeals to the imagination, by transcending the ordinary limits of human ability, wonderfully encourages and liberates us.
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Beauty through my senses stole I yielded myself to the perfect whole.
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Character is always known. Thefts never enrich alms never impoverish murder will speak out of stone walls.
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Our life seems not present, so much as prospective not for the affairs on which it is wasted, but as a hint of this vast- flowingvigor.
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Let it suffice that in the light of these two facts, namely, that the mind is One, and that nature is its correlative, history isto be read and written.
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A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.
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Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.
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Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.
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Be a football to Time and Chance, the more kicks, the better, so that you inspect the whole game and know its utmost law.
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It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
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