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Frankness invites frankness.
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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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Speak the affirmative emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject.
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Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.
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The universal does not attract us until housed in an individual.
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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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Life has no memory. That which proceeds in succession might be remembered, but that which is coexistent, or ejaculated from a deeper cause, as yet far from being conscious, knows not its own tendency.
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The age of puberty is a crisis in the age of man worth studying. It is the passage from the unconscious to the conscious from thesleep of passions to their rage.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What we commonly call man, the eating, drinking, planting, counting man, does not, as we know him, represent himself, but misrepresents himself. Him we do not respect, but the soul, whose organ he is, would he let it appear through his action, would make our knees bend.
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Everything in nature goes by law, and not by luck.
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A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
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Not in his goals but in his transitions, man is great.
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A philosopher must be more than a philosopher.
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Nature hates calculators.
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The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome.
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Knowledge is when you learn something new every day. Wisdom is when you let something go every day.
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We cannot forgive another for not being ourselves.
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
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The hero is suffered to be himself.
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The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture. The continent we inhabit is to be physic andfood for our mind, as well as our body. The land, with its tranquilizing, sanative influences, is to repair the errors of a scholastic and traditional education, and bring us to just relations with men and things.
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That you are fair or wise is vain, Or strong, or rich, or generous You must have also the untaught strain That sheds beauty on the rose.
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The aspect of nature is devout. Like the figure of Jesus, she stands with bended head, and hands folded upon the breast. The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
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