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It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.
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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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.
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It is the dissenter, the theorist, the aspirant, who is quitting this ancient domain to embark on seas of adventure, who engages our interest. Omitting then for the present all notice of the stationary class, we shall find that the movement party divides itself into two classes, the actors, and the students.
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Wise cultivated, genial conversation is the last flower of civilization, and the best result which life has to offer us,--a cup for gods, which has no repentance. Conversation is our account of ourselves. All we have, all we can, all we know, is brought into play, and as the reproduction in finer form, of all our havings.
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It is curious that Christianity, which is idealism, is sturdily defended by the brokers, and steadily attacked by the idealists.
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By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause.
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To live the greatest number of good hours is wisdom.
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Whatever events in progress shall disgust men with cities, and infuse into them the passion for country life, and country pleasures, will render a service to the whole face of this continent, and will further the most poetic of all the occupations of real life, the bringing out by art the native but hidden graces of the landscape.
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I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight or broad human sentiment.
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Some will always be above others.
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Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.
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There are two laws discreteNot reconciled,Law for man, and law for thing.
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We shun the rugged battle of fate where strength is born.
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We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves.
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I am Defeated all the time, yet to Victory I am born.
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The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do.
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Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.
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[A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand.
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Miracle comes to the miraculous, not to the arithmetician.
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I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page.
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We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
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