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Live well, learn plenty, laugh often, love much.
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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I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly disparity between age and youth.
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The unbelief of the age is attested by the loud condemnation of trifles.
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A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
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The gates of thought, - how slow and late they discover themselves! Yet when they appear, we see that they were always there, always open.
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Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.
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There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads among them take the best places.
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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
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Art is the need to create but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied hands, and of making cripples and monsters, such as all pictures and statues are. Nothing less than the creation of man and nature is its end.
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So far as a person thinks they are free.
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Every man is an infinitely repelling orb, and holds his individual being on that condition.
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Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome.
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Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a great city, and no man knows what is safe, or where it will end.
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God enters by a private door into every individual.
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A work of art is an abstract or epitome of the world. It is the result or expression of nature, in miniature. For, although the works of nature are innumerable and all different, the result or the expression of them all is similar and single.
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Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade. Their works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world. I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is not an apology, but a life.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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Every man believes he has a greater possibility.
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