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Books are the best of things, well used abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.
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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Strange is this alien despotism of Sleep which takes two persons lying in each other's arms & separates them leagues, continents,asunder.
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The populace drags down the gods to their own level.
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The soul contains the event that shall befall it, for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts and what we pray to ourselves for is always granted.
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When I behold a rich landscape, it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity.
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No institution will be better than the institutor.
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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
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Whatever is old corrupts, and the past turns to snakes.
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There is a principle which is the basis of things, which all speech aims to say, and all action to evolve, a simple, quiet, undescribed, undescribable presence, dwelling very peacefully in us, our rightful lord: we are not to do, but to let do not to work, but to be worked upon.
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Every great man is unique.
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The good judge is not he who does hair-splitting justice to every allegation, but who, aiming at substantial justice, rules something intelligible of the guidance of suitors.
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Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.
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Knowledge exists to be imparted.
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As the traveler who has lost his way, throws his reins on his horse's neck, and trusts to the instinct of the animal to find his road, so must we do with the divine animal who carries us through this world
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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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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
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Nature is saturated with Deity.
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The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land.
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The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
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The Sun is the sole inconsumable fireAnd God is the sole inexhaustible Giver.
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What king has he not taught state, as Talma taught Napoleon? What maiden has not found him finer than her delicacy? What lover has he not outloved? What sage has he not outseen? What gentleman has he not instructed in the rudeness of his behavior?
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