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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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If a man lose his balance, and immerse himself in any trades or pleasures for their own sake, he may be a good wheel or pin, but he is not a cultivated man.
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Discontent is want of self-reliance it is infirmity of will.
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The customer is the immediate jewel of our souls. Him we flatter, him we feast, compliment, vote for, and will not contradict.
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior...
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Whom God has put asunder, why should man put together?
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Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom.
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A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.
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Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.
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Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.
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I wish that friendship should have feet, as well as eyes and eloquence. It must plant itself on the ground, before it vaults overthe moon. I wish it to be a little of a citizen, before it is quite a cherub.
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Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power which the work evinced in the artist.
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The secret of success in education is respecting the students.
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At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles.
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In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.
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The shows of the day, the dewy morning, the rainbow, mountains, orchards in blossom, stars, moonlight, shadows in still water, andthe like, if too eagerly hunted, become shows merely, and mock us with their unreality.
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The pest of society is egotists.
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Solitude is naught and society is naught. Alternate them and the good of each is seen.
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When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the material creation.
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Live well, learn plenty, laugh often, love much.
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Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.
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