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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
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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Insist on yourself. Never imitate.
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But genius looks forward: the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates.
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Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.
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The preamble of thought, the transition through which it passes from the unconscious to the conscious, is action. Only so much do I know, as I have lived. Instantly we know whose words are loaded with life, and whose not.
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So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.
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When a man becomes cultivated, he develops a new respect for who he is. This causes him to be ashamed of his past identification of himself and others according to things, i.e. property.
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I believe in Eternity. I can find Greece, Palestine, Italy, Spain, and the Islands, - the Genius and creative Principle of each and of all eras, in my own mind.
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A sleeping child gives me the impression of a traveler in a very far country.
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The household is a school of power. There, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life.
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The best part of health is fine disposition
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The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it.
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No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.
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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
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I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victimized in being brought hither?--or, prior to that, answer me this, Are you victimizable?
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