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A man builds a fine house and now he has a master, and a task for life.
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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When a man does not write his poetry, it escapes by other vents through him.
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When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.
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If you don't ride in the rain, you don't ride.
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When there is sympathy, there needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise,--so, a blockhead makes a blockhead of his companion. Wonderful power to benumb possesses this brother.
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Out of sleeping a waking, Out of waking a sleep.
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The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.
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To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.
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The preamble of thought, the transition through which it passes from the unconscious to the conscious, is action. Only so much do I know, as I have lived. Instantly we know whose words are loaded with life, and whose not.
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He only is a well-made man who has a good determination.
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No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
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The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books and I think no chair is so much needed.
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Astronomy is a cold, desert science, with all its pompous figures,-depends a little too much on the glass-grinder, too little on the mind. 'T is of no use to show us more planets and systems. We know already what matter is, and more or less of it does not signify.
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Every man should let out all the length of all the reigns should find or make a frank and healthy expression of what force and meaning is in him.
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Power and speed be hands and feet.
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Examples are cited by soldiers, of men who have seen the cannon pointed, and the fire given to it, and who have stepped aside from he path of the ball. The terrors of the storm are chiefly confined to the parlour and the cabin.
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Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself.
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Teach the children! It is painting in fresco.
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The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
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