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Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.
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
Waldo Emerson
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Is it not better to intimate our astonishment as we pass through this world if it be only for a moment ere we are swallowed up in the yeast of the abyss? I will lift up my hands and say Kosmos.
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Art is the need to create but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied hands, and of making cripples and monsters, such as all pictures and statues are. Nothing less than the creation of man and nature is its end.
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For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.
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One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.
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Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man.
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It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.
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So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.
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Nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
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Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life. People only see what they are prepared to see.
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An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.
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The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion.
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Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous or when they are most luxurious-they are conservatives after dinner.
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He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation but he shuts the door of truth.
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A friend, therefore, is a sort of paradox in nature. I who alone am, I who see nothing in nature whose existence I can affirm with equal evidence to my own, behold now the semblance of my being, in all its height, variety, and curiosity, reiterated in a foreign form so that a friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it.
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Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the toughfibre of the human heart. The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.
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It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive, the character, the secret self. We call the tree good from its fruits, and the man, from his works.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest genius is the most indebted person.
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Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other.
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Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology.
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