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Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.
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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So in writing, there is always a right word, and every other than that is wrong. There is no beauty in words except in their collocation. The effect of a fanciful word misplaced, is like that of a horn of exquisite polish growing on a human head.
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If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
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The most Indian thing about the Indian is surely not his moccasins or his calumet, his wampum or his stone hatched, but traits of character and sagacity, skill, or passion.
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And dazzling memory revive.Refresh the faded tints, Recut the aged prints, And write my old adventures, with the pen Which, on the first day, drew Upon the tablets blue The dancing Pleiads, and the eternal men.
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There is no man of Nature's worth In the circle of the earth.
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To be great is to be misunderstood.
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Only poetry inspires poetry.
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Therefore is nature ever the ally of Religion: lends her all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment.
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I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labor and difficulty he has but to open his eyes to see things in a true light, and in large relations whilst they must make painful corrections, and keep a vigilant eye on many sources of error.
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The way to mend the bad world is to create the right world.
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Although this garrulity of advising is born with us, I confess that life is rather a subject of wonder, than of didactics. So muchfate, so much irresistible dictation from temperament and unknown inspiration enter into it, that we doubt we can say anything out of our own experience whereby to help each other.
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Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.
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Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of beat.
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Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.
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Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.
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Whatever events in progress shall disgust men with cities, and infuse into them the passion for country life, and country pleasures, will render a service to the whole face of this continent, and will further the most poetic of all the occupations of real life, the bringing out by art the native but hidden graces of the landscape.
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