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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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You think me the child of circumstance I make my circumstance.
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A cheerful, intelligent face is the end of culture.
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The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.
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Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
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Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . .
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The rhyme of the poet Modulates the king's affairs.
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The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency.
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Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet.
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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
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Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.
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I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.
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You must treat the days respectfully, you must be a day yourself, and not interrogate it like a college professor.
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We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause.
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The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.
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Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.
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Tis the privilege of Art Thus to play its cheerful part, Man on earth to acclimate And bend the exile to his fate.
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The evolution of a highly destined society must be moral it must run in the grooves of the celestial wheels.
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O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.
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But the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of the market had induced to build towns. Agriculture therefore was a religious injunction, because of the perils of the state from nomadism.
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Expediency of literature, reason of literature, lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned much is to say on both sides,and, while the fight waxes hot, thou, dearest scholar, stick to thy foolish task, add a line every hour, and between whiles add a line.
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