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What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of truth and good?
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
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There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live.
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He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests he gives an independent, genuine verdict. You must court him: he does not court you. But the man is, as it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness.
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The dogma of the mystic offices of Christ being dropped, and he standing on his genius as a moral teacher, 'tis impossible to maintain the old emphasis of his personality and it recedes, as all persons must, before the sublimity of the moral laws.
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No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, usages, and arts, of his times shall have no share.
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Each particle is a microcosm, and faithfully renders the likeness of the world.
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But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.
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Every reform was once a private opinion.
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Heaven is large, and affords space for all modes of love and fortitude.
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It is hard to mesmerize ourselves, to whip our own top but through sympathy we are capable of energy and endurance. Concert fires people to a certain fury of performance they can rarely reach alone.
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It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.
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Vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last,--a long way leading nowhere.
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The universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest.
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It is an esoteric doctrine of society, that a little wickedness is good to make muscle as if conscience were not good for hands and legs.
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All natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence.
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We do not make a world of our own, but fall into institutions already made, and have to accommodate ourselves to them to be useful at all.
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There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.
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Great men exist that there might be greater men.
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Convert life into truth.
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The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.
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Every roof is agreeable to the eye, until it is lifted then we find tragedy and moaning women, and hard-eyed husbands.
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