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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
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The child realizes to every man his own earliest remembrance, and so supplies a defect in our education, or enables us to live over the unconscious history with a sympathy so tender as to be almost personal experience.
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The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eternal.
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A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.
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Observe how every truth and every error, each a thought of someone's mind, clothes itself with societies, houses, cities, language, ceremonies, newspapers
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.
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Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.
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A great man will find a great subject, or which is the same thing, make any subject great.
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That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.
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Nothing is great but the inexhaustible wealth of nature.
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There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears but a court as of angels, a public not to be bribed, not to be entreated, and not to be overawed, decides upon every man's title to fame.
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London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.
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The soul refuses limits and always affirms an optimism, never a pessimism.
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Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdom which cannot help itself.
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If you take in a lie, you must take in all that belongs to it.
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Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.
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Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle: endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge.
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Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.
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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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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.
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Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life.
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