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Man is a piece of the universe made alive
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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Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology.
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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
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A man must be clothed with society, or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty, as of a displaced and unfurnished member. He is to be dressed in arts and institutions, as well as in body garments. Now and then a man exquisitely made can live alone, and must but coop up most men and you undo them.
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He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand.
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To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men - that is genius... Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist... What I must do, is all that concerns me not what the people think... Nothing can bring you peace but yourself nothing, but the triumph of principles.
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Every natural action is graceful.
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No facts are to me sacred none are profane I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.
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Successful is the person who has lived well, laughed often and loved much, who has gained the respect of children, who leaves the world better than they found it, who has never lacked appreciation for the earth's beauty, who never fails to look for the best in others or give the best of themselves.
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The lord is the peasant that was, The peasant is the lord that shall be.
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Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity.
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Action is the process whereby what is not fully formed passes into expressive consciousness.
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There is no calamity that right words will not begin to redress
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I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.
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From Washington, proverbially the city of distances, through all its cities, states, and territories, it is a country of beginnings, of projects, of designs, and expectations.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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We cannot forgive another for not being ourselves.
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The height, the deity of man is to be self-sustained, to need no gift, no foreign force. Society is good when it does not violate me, but best when it is likest to solitude.
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Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.
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What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of childhood? St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed.
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The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.
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