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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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It is the dissenter, the theorist, the aspirant, who is quitting this ancient domain to embark on seas of adventure, who engages our interest. Omitting then for the present all notice of the stationary class, we shall find that the movement party divides itself into two classes, the actors, and the students.
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But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things.
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It all begins when the soul would have its way with you.
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People who know how to act are never preachers.
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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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The river knows the way to the sea: Without a pilot it runs and falls, Blessing all lands with its charity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Profound sincerity is the only basis of talent as of character.
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And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.
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Everything in our world, even a drop of dew, is a microcosm of the universe.
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The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health he must be at the top of his condition.
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Be an opener of doors
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I like people who like Plato.
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A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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Earth laughs in flowers to see her boastful boys Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs Who steer the plough, but cannot steer their feet Clear of the grave.
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Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody.
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I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly disparity between age and youth.
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I think I have done well, if I have acquired a new word from a good author and my business with him is to find my own, though itwere only to melt him down into an epithet or an image for daily use.
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Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A nation never falls but by suicide.
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