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The finest poetry was first experience.
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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The near explains the far. The drop is a small ocean. A man is related to all nature. This perception of the worth of the vulgar is fruitful in discoveries. Goethe, in this very thing the most modern of the moderns, has shown us, as none ever did, the genius of the ancients.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
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The secret is the answer to all that has been, all that is, and all that will ever be.
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A human being should beware how he laughs, for then he shows all his faults.
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Do not you see that every misfortune is misconduct that every honour is desert that every effort is an insolence of your own?...You carry your fortune in your own hand.
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To a physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.
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God is our name for the last generalization to which we can arrive.
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He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.
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God will not make himself manifest to cowards
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A friend is a person who goes around saying nice things about you behind your back.
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A friend, therefore, is a sort of paradox in nature. I who alone am, I who see nothing in nature whose existence I can affirm with equal evidence to my own, behold now the semblance of my being, in all its height, variety, and curiosity, reiterated in a foreign form so that a friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
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The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man.
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The secret of success in education is respecting the students.
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Thefts never enrich alms never impoverish murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie-for example, the taint of vanity, the least attempt to make a good impression, a favorable appearance-will instantly vitiate the effect.
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An eminent teacher of girls said, the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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The South-wind brings Life, sunshine and desire, And on every mount and meadow Breathes aromatic fire But over the dead he has no power, The lost, the lost, he cannot restore And, looking over the hills, I mourn The darling who shall not return.
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If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it at any rate, brag.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
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