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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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Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
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Nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere.
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And truly it demands something god like in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity, and has ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster. High be his heart, faithful his will, clear his sight, that he may in good earnest be doctrine, society, law, to himself, that a simple purpose may be to him as strong as iron necessity is to others!
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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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I have just been conversing with one man, to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest sentiments, as well as a knot of friends, or a pair of lovers.
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I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.
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I am not so foolish as to declaim against forms. Forms are as essential as bodies but to exalt particular forms, to adhere to oneform a moment after it is outgrown, is unreasonable, and it is alien to the spirit of Christ.
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There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
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We pass for what we are.
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If you criticize a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and, instead of the poet, are censuring your owncaricature of him.
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Man was born to be rich, or to inevitably grow rich, by the use of his faculties: by the union of thought with nature.
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Every word we speak is million-faced or convertible to an indefinite number of applications. If it were not so we could read no book. Your remark would only fit your case, not mine.
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The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less imports the question of authorship.
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Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life.
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Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his fortune, and only cares that the world shall last his days.
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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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We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.
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A good indignation makes an excellent speech.
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A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.
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Wise cultivated, genial conversation is the last flower of civilization, and the best result which life has to offer us,--a cup for gods, which has no repentance. Conversation is our account of ourselves. All we have, all we can, all we know, is brought into play, and as the reproduction in finer form, of all our havings.
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