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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
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Our health is our sound relation to external objects our sympathy with external being.
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In the country, without any interference from the law, the agricultural life favors the permanence of families.
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There is no calamity that right words will not begin to redress
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The terrible tabulation of the French statists brings every piece of whim and humor to be reducible also to exact numerical ratios. If one man in twenty thousand, or in thirty thousand, eats shoes, or marries his grandmother, then, in every twenty thousand, or thirty thousand, is found one man who eats shoes, or marries his grandmother.
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Character is always known. Thefts never enrich alms never impoverish murder will speak out of stone walls.
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The terrors of the child are quite reasonable, and add to his loveliness for his utter ignorance and weakness, and his enchanting indignation on such a small basis of capital compel every bystander to take his part.
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We read often with as much talent as we write.
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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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If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none. If there is grandeur in you, you will find grandeur in porters and sweeps.
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He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not 'studying a profession', for he does not postpone his life, but lives already. He has not one chance, but a hundred chances.
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Women, as most susceptible, are the best index of the coming hour.
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In spite of warnings, change rarely occurs until the status quo becomes more painful than change. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
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Every word was once a poem.
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Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind.
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We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves.
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The solid, solid universe Is pervious to Love With bandaged eyes he never errs, Around, below, above. His blinding light He flingeth white On God's and Satan's brood, And reconciles By mystic wiles The evil and the good.
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Walking has the best value as gymnastics of the mind.
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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false statement I could never stay there five minutes. But why come out? The streetis as false as the church, and when I get to my house, or to my manners, or to my speech, I have not got away from the lie.
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Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.
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The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.
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