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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
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Philosopher
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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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If you cannot be free be as free as you can.
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Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
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We must be our own before we can be another's.
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Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn
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The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.
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For the resolute and determined, there is time and opportunity.
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But whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of persecution always proceeds.
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The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.
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Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.
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Genius has no taste for weaving sand.
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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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In this great society wide lying around us, a critical analysis would find very few spontaneous actions. It is almost all custom and gross sense.
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Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?
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Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it.
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Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.
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Cupid is a casuist, a mystic, and a cabalist,-- Can your lurking thought surprise, And interpret your device, . . . . All things wait for and divine him,-- How shall I dare to malign him?
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Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.
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There is also something excellent in every audience,--the capacity of virtue. They are ready to be beatified.
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The eye is the best of artists.
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The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry.
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