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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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There are two laws discreteNot reconciled,Law for man, and law for thing.
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Women, more than all, are the element and kingdom of illusion. Being fascinated, they fascinate.
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Let us unlearn our wisdom of the world. Let us lie low in the Lord's power, and learn that truth alone makes rich and great.
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People wish to be settled only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.
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Cultivate an attitude of gratitude, of giving and forgiving. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
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Many a reformer perishes in his removal of rubbish,--and that makes the offensiveness of the class. They are partial they are notequal to the work they pretend. They lose their way in the assault on the kingdom of darkness, they expend all their energy on some accidental evil, and lose their sanity and power of benefit.
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Good nature is stronger than tomahawks.
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Great men are sincere.
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Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.
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Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
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All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature.
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It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.
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Talent may frolic and juggle genius realizes and adds.
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These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a god- like ease and power.
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Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life.
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The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss of wealth, a loss of friends, seems at the moment unpaid loss, and unpayable. But the sure years reveal the deep remedial force that underlies all facts.
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In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.
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The time will come when the evil forms we have known can no more be organized. Man's culture can spare nothing, wants all material. He is to convert all impediments into instruments, all enemies into power.
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Motion or change, and identity or rest, are the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and Rest. The whole code of her laws may be written on the thumbnail, or the signet of a ring.
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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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