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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
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We never touch but at points.
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A child convinced against his will is of the same opinion still. The reward for a thing well done, is to have done it.
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Power and speed be hands and feet.
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Knowledge is when you learn something new every day. Wisdom is when you let something go every day.
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Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.
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I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-borne treasures home.
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Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health he must be at the top of his condition.
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As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.
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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Their cousins can tell you nothing about them. They lived in their writings, and sotheir house and street life was trivial and commonplace. If you would know their tastes and complexions, the most admiring of their readers most resembles them.
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It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.
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As Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant. There is not a property in nature but a mind is born to seek and find it.
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It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.
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Lawyers are a prudent race though not very fond of liberty.
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Society, to be sure, does not like this very well it saith, Whoso goes to walk alone, accuses the whole world he declares all to be unfit to be his companions it is very uncivil, nay, insulting Society will retaliate.
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Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim.
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There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty.
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We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. It may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good issues, so it be faithfully imparted, but God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.
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The end of being is to know and if you say, the end of knowledge is action,-why, yes, but the end of that action again, is knowledge.
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