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A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
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 like my boy with his endless sweet soliloquies and iterations and his utter inability to conceive why I should not leave all my nonsense, business, and writing and come to tie up his toy horse, as if there was or could be any end to nature beyond his horse. And he is wiser than we when [he] threatens his whole threat I will not love you.
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Had I but written as many odes in praise of Muhammad and Ali as I have composed for King Mahmud, they would have showered a hundred blessings on me.
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For, whom the Muses smile upon, And touch with soft persuasion, His words like a storm-wind can bring Terror and beauty on their wing In his every syllable Lurketh nature veritable.
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Men consort in camp and town But the poet dwells alone.
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A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.
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Invention breeds invention.
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There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.
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To clothe the fiery thought In simple words succeeds, For still the craft of genius is To mask a king in weeds.
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We know that madness belongs to love,--what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven.
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For the resolute and determined, there is time and opportunity.
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One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. He only is right who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded by worry, fret and anxiety. Finish every day, and be done with it. You have done what you could.
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Are you not scared by seeing that the gypsies are more attractive to us than the apostles?
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The poet needs a ground in popular tradition on which he may work, and which, again, may restrain his art within the due temperance. It holds him to the people, supplies a foundation for his edifice and, in furnishing so much work done to his hand, leaves him at leisure, and in full strength for the audacities of his imagination.
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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Each of us sees in others what we carry in our own hearts.
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The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.
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Every great man is unique.
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Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity.
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