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Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.
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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Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.
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How silent, how spacious, what room for all, yet without place to insert an atom--in graceful succession, in equal fullness, in balanced beauty, the dance of the hours goes forward still. Like an odor of incense, like a strain of music, like a sleep, it is inexact and boundless. It will not be dissected, nor unraveled, nor shown.
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God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation.
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I feel some unwillingness to quit the remembrance of the past. With all the hope of the new I feel that we are leaving the old.
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We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.
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We are as much strangers in nature, as we are aliens from God. We do not understand the notes of birds. The fox and the deer run away from us the bear and tiger rend us. We do not know the uses of more than a few plants, as corn and the apple, the potato and the vine. Is not the landscape, every glimpse of which hath a grandeur, a face of him?
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Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.
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Ethics and religion differ herein that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God Ethics does not.
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The Church seems to totter to its fall, almost all life extinct. On this occasion, any complaisance would be criminal which told you, whose hope and commission it is to preach the faith of Christ, that the faith of Christ is preached.
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Commonsense is the wick of the candle.
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No hope so bright but is the beginning of its own fulfilment.
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Quotation confesses inferiority.
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We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.
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The powers of the Soul are commensurate with its needs.
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Only a biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window.
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The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency.
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You must treat the days respectfully, you must be a day yourself, and not interrogate it like a college professor.
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Activity is contagious.
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There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men.
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Tis weak and vicious people who cast the blame on Fate. The right use of Fate is to bring up our conduct to the loftiness of nature.
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