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Thou art to me a delicious torment.
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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I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.Instead of the gong for dinner, let us hear a whistle from the Spartan fife.
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Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.
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Senators and presidents have climbed so high with pain enough, not because they think the place specially agreeable, but as an apology for real worth, and to vindicate their manhood in our eyes. This conspicuous chair is their compensation to themselves for being of a poor, cold, hard nature.
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There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works.
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We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited.
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A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.
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What we commonly call man, the eating, drinking, planting, counting man, does not, as we know him, represent himself, but misrepresents himself. Him we do not respect, but the soul, whose organ he is, would he let it appear through his action, would make our knees bend.
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This very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.
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As a man thinketh, so is he, and as a man chooseth, so is he.
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Thus grows up fashion, an equivocal semblance, the most puissant, the most fantastic and frivolous, the most feared and followed, and which morals and violence assault in vain.
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We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected.
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Greatness once and forever has down with opinion.
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The world exists, as I understand it, to teach the science of liberty.
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The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
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Whatever limits us we call fate.
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, and go as brave as the zodiac.
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What is addressed to us for contemplation does not threaten us, but makes us intellectual beings.
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Thought makes everything fit for use.
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What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.
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