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All life is an experiment.

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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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.
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The lover of letters loves power too.
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The value of a dollar is to buy just things a dollar goes on increasing in value with all the genius and all the virtue of the world. A dollar in a university is worth more than a dollar in a jail in a temperate, schooled, law-abiding community than in some sink of crime, where dice, knives, and arsenic are in constant play.
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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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There can never be deep peace between two spirits, never mutual respect, until, in their dialogue, each stands for the whole world.
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Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.
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We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.
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Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.
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The best picture makes us say, I am a painter also.
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Nothing is great but the inexhaustible wealth of nature.
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Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.
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Every opinion reacts on him who utters it.
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Look sharply after your own thoughts. They come unlooked for, like a new bird seen on your trees, and, if you turn to your usual task, disappear and you shall never find that perception again never, I say-but perhaps years, ages, and I know not what events and worlds my lie between you and its return.
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It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'
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The intellect,-that is miraculous! Who has it, has the talisman: his skin and bones, though they were of the color of night, are transparent, and the everlasting stars shine through, with attractive beams.
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Under every deep a lower deep opens.
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The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
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