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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
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The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.
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There is an intimate interdependence of intellect and morals.
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A poem is made up of thoughts, each of which filled the whole sky of the poet in its turn.
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The thief steals from himself. The swindler swindles himself. For the real price is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are signs. These signs, like paper money, may be counterfeited or stolen, but that which they represent, namely, knowledge and virtue, cannot be counterfeited or stolen.
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We stand against fate, as children stand up against the wall in their father's house, and notch their height from year to year. But when the boy grows to a man, and is master of the house, he pulls down that wall and builds it new and bigger.
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...man is an analogist, and studies relations in all objects. He is placed in the center of beings, and a ray of relation passes from every other being to him. And neither can man be understood without these objects, nor these objects without man.
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For the resolute and determined, there is time and opportunity.
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Do not follow where the path may lead.
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Immitation is suicide.
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When I behold a rich landscape, it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity.
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There comes a period of the imagination to each--a later youth--the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry.
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Don't make a novel to establish a principle of political economy. You will spoil both.
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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
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Yet America is a poem in our eyes its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
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The Same, the Same: friend and foe are of one stuff the ploughman, the plough, and the furrow, are of one stuff and the stuff is such, and so much, that the variations of form are unimportant.
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What school, college, or lecture bring men depends on what men bring to carry it home in.
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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other, and thus makes him necessary to society. ... Society can never prosper, but must always be bankrupt, until every man does that which he was created to do.
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Stand guard at the portal of your mind.
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Whatever appeals to the imagination, by transcending the ordinary limits of human ability, wonderfully encourages and liberates us.
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But I shall hear without pain, that I play the courtier very ill, and talk of that which I do not well understand.
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