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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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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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As long as civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick there will be bitterness in our laughter, and our wine will burn our mouth. Only that good profits which we can taste with all doors open, and which serves all men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Books are the best of things, well used abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.
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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false statement I could never stay there five minutes. But why come out? The streetis as false as the church, and when I get to my house, or to my manners, or to my speech, I have not got away from the lie.
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The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs through himself and all things.
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In strict science, all persons underlie the same condition of an infinite remoteness. Shall we fear to cool our love by mining forthe metaphysical foundation of this elysian temple? Shall I not be as real as the things I see? If I am, I shall not fear to know them for what they are.
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In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.
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It is a capital blunder as you discover, when another man recites his charities.
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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
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Tis the good reader that makes the good book a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
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The world is his who can see through its pretension.
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Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.
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Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.
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Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a great city, and no man knows what is safe, or where it will end.
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Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions.
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Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,-must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know.
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The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides.
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He only is rich who owns the day.
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Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape, and bodily exercise on the mind.
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I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
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Man is the will, and woman the sentiment. In this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder, and Sentiment the sail when woman affects to steer, the rudder is only a masked sail.
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