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Imitation cannot go above its model.
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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Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.
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We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
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The only joy in his being mine, is that the not mine is mine.
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The need for a rational consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.
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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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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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Far or forgot to me is near Shadow and sunlight are the same The vanished gods to me appear And one to me are shame and fame.They reckon ill who leave me out When me they fly, I am the wings I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.
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Science, Nature,-O, I've yearned to open some page.
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Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul.
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Solitary converse with nature for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, and October woods!
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I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old.
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I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.
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We ascribe beauty to that which is simple which has no superfluous parts which exactly answers its end which stands related to all things which is the mean of many extremes.
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Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. We're so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside.
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He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand.
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Life itself is ... a sleep within a sleep.
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Spurious prudence, making the senses final, is the god of sots and cowards, and is the subject of all comedy. It is nature's joke, and therefore literature's. True prudence limits this sensualism by admitting the knowledge of an internal and real world.
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When there is sympathy, there needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise,--so, a blockhead makes a blockhead of his companion. Wonderful power to benumb possesses this brother.
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There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep.
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Speech is better than silence silence is better than speech.
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