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Never read any book that is not a year old.
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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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.
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I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.
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Why needs a man be rich? Why must he have horses, fine garments, handsome apartments, access to public houses, and places of amusement? Only for want of thought.
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The right eloquence needs no bell to call the people together, and no constable to keep them.
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The day is always his, who works in it with serenity and great aims.
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If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads, just one year afterwards.
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The remedy for all blunders, the cure of blindness, the cure of crime, is love.
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Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things?
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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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Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.
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The pulpit and the press have many commonplaces denouncing the thirst for wealth, but if men should take these moralists at their word, and leave off aiming to be rich, the moralists would rush to rekindle at all hazards this love of power in the people, lest civilization should be undone.
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Neither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair.
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The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not.
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Yet America is a poem in our eyes its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
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The health of the eye demands a horizon.
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Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
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In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.
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Books are the best of things, well used abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.
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These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a god- like ease and power.
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Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.
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