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Accept your genius and say what you think.
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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I am primarily engaged to myself to be a public servant of all the gods, to demonstrate to all men that there is intelligence andgood will at the heart of all things, and even higher and yet higher leadings. These are my engagements how can your law further or hinder me in what I shall do to men?
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Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensable office,--to teach elements. But they can only highly serve us, when they aim not to drill, but to create when they gather from far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls, and, by the concentrated fires, set the hearts of their youth on flame.
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If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect.
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Knowledge is the only elegance.
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Genius is power, talent is applicability.
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Washington, where an insignificant individual may trespass on a nation's time.
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We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition, whilst all later teachings are tuitions.
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The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.
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The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.
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There is always room for a person of force and they make room for many.
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Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!
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Spurious prudence, making the senses final, is the god of sots and cowards, and is the subject of all comedy. It is nature's joke, and therefore literature's. True prudence limits this sensualism by admitting the knowledge of an internal and real world.
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Activity is contagious.
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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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Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things?
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When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen.
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Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.
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Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
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Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.
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