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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
Waldo Emerson
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The desire of gold is not for gold. It is not the love of much wheat, and wool and household stuff. It is the means of freedom and benefit.
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Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding
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If with love thy heart has burned If thy love is unreturned Hide thy grief within thy breast, Though it tear thee unexpressed.
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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
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And, in fine, the ancient precept, Know thyself, and the modern precept, Study nature, become at last one maxim.
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We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.
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Humility is the secret of the wise.
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Flowers are the earth laughing.
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Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
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Explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatize or accept another's dogmatism.
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But speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance. Speak the truth, and all things alive orbrute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.
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It does not hurt weak eyes to look into beautiful eyes never so long.
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There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears but a court as of angels, a public not to be bribed, not to be entreated, and not to be overawed, decides upon every man's title to fame.
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Our statute is a currency which we stamp with our own portrait.
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With each divine impulse the mind rends the thin rinds of the visible and finite, and comes out into eternity, and inspires and expires its air. It converses with truths that have always been spoken in the world, and becomes conscious of a closer sympathy with Zeno and Arrian, than with persons in the house.
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The Same, the Same: friend and foe are of one stuff the ploughman, the plough, and the furrow, are of one stuff and the stuff is such, and so much, that the variations of form are unimportant.
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Do not follow where the path may lead.
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The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.
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A man must know how to estimate a sour face. The sour face of the multitude, like thier sweet faces, have no deep cause, but are put on and off as the wind blows and the newspaper directs.
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Whom God has put asunder, why should man put together?
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