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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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Calmness is always godlike.
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A cheerful, intelligent face is the end of culture.
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We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science, or sink into that of sensation. Between these extremes is the equator of life, of thought, or spirit, or poetry,--a narrow belt.
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A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat self-control is the rule.
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Our friends early appear to us as representatives of certain ideas, which they never pass or exceed. They stand on the brink of the ocean of thought and power, but they never take a single step that would bring them there.
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I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten even so, they have made me.
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When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.
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A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price.
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The preamble of thought, the transition through which it passes from the unconscious to the conscious, is action. Only so much do I know, as I have lived. Instantly we know whose words are loaded with life, and whose not.
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We must be our own before we can be another's.
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Do what we can, summer will have its flies.
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Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare.
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Power and speed be hands and feet.
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The moral equalizes all enriches, empowers all. It is the coin which buys all, and which all find in their pocket. Under the whipof the driver, the slave shall feel his equality with saints and heroes.
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Words are finite organs of the infinite mind. They cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth. They break, chop, and impoverish it.
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If we follow the truth, it will bring us out safe at last.
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The soul lets no man go without some visitations and holy-days of a diviner presence.
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Yet America is a poem in our eyes its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
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Observe how every truth and every error, each a thought of someone's mind, clothes itself with societies, houses, cities, language, ceremonies, newspapers
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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
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