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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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Men are what their mothers made them.
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Live in the sunshine.
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Nature, through all her kingdoms, insures herself.
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I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.
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For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word, a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem.
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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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There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep.
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The Greek epigram intimates that the force of love is not shown by the courting of beauty, but where the like desire is inflamed for one who is ill-favored.
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Every man is wanted, and no man is wanted much.
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Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims.
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I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature.
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The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, --/ Never read a book that is not a year old./ Never read any but the famed books./ Never read any but what you like.
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A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
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It was a pleasure and a privilege to walk with him [H.D. Thoreau]. He knew the country like a fox or a bird, and passed through it as freely by paths of his own.
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The powers of the Soul are commensurate with its needs.
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First be a good animal.
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What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.
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Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
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The secret of success in education is respecting the students.
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Convert life into truth.
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