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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
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Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.
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We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim.
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There is an intimate interdependence of intellect and morals.
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Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature in darkness and light in heat and cold in the ebb and flow of water in male and female in the equation of quantity and quality in the fluids of the animal body in the systole an
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Conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children, and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism.
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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.
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I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or if you have slept or if you have head ache or sciatica or leprosy or thunder-stroke, I beseech you, by all angels, to hold your peace and not pollute the morning.
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Pride eradicates all vices but itself.
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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
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Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.
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But I shall hear without pain, that I play the courtier very ill, and talk of that which I do not well understand.
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Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.
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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
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We over-estimate the conscience of our friend. His goodness seems better than our goodness, his nature finer, his temptations less. Everything that is his,--his name, his form, his dress, books, and instruments,--fancy enhances. Our own thought sounds new and larger from his mouth.
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I unsettle all things.
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The only thing that can grow is the thing you give energy to.
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Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.
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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
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What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.
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