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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
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We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was accomplished, and much was begun in us.
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The key to every man is his thought.
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For, the advantages which fashion values, are plants which thrive in very confined localities, in a few streets, namely. Out of this precinct, they go for nothing are of no use in the farm, in the forest, in the market, in war, in the nuptial society, in the literary or scientific circle, at sea, in friendship, in the heaven of thought or virtue.
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Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn
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I hate to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain assurance of success. But as soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.
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And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.
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Literature is eavesdropping.
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The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
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A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.
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We seldom see anybody who is not uneasy or afraid to live.
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Man's actions are the picture book of his creeds.
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Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men or they are no better than dreams.
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In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.
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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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Imagination is a very high sort of seeing.
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The judge weighs the arguments and puts a brave face on the matter, and since there must be a decision, decides as he can, and hopes he has done justice and given satisfaction to the community
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We come to our own and would make friends with matter, which the ambitious chatter of the schools would persuade us to despise. We can never part with it the mind loves its old home: as water to our thirst, so is rock, the ground, to our eyes, and hands, and feet. It is firm water: it is cold flame: what health, what affinity!
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We change whether we like it or not.
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A home kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.
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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.
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