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Culture is one thing and varnish is another.
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 genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.
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That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.
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Friendship is an order of nobility from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.
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Only a biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window.
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We do not make a world of our own, but fall into institutions already made, and have to accommodate ourselves to them to be useful at all.
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Love, and you shall be loved.
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To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul. A true conversion, a true Christ, is now, as always, to be madeby the reception of beautiful sentiments.
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Don't set out to teach theism from your natural history... You spoil both.
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American mind a wilderness of opportunities.
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Every thing admonishes us how needlessly long life is.
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Speak as you think, be what you are, pay your debts of all kinds. I prefer to be owned as sound and solvent, and my word as good as my bond, and to be what cannot be skipped, or dissipated, or undermined, to all the eclat in the universe. This reality is the foundation of friendship, religion, poetry, and art.
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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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The world is nothing, the man is all in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason it is for you to know all, it is for you to dare all.
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Every man is grave alone.
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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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Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle: endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge.
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Nature, as we know her, is no saint.... She comes eating and drinking and sinning.
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The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.
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There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.
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Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.
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