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Life is a series of surprises.
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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A nation never falls but by suicide.
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If you criticize a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and, instead of the poet, are censuring your owncaricature of him.
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Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?
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We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.
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Any work looks wonderful to me except the one which I can do.
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This immediate dependence of language upon nature, this conversion of an outward phenomenon into a type of somewhat in human life,never loses its power to affect us. It is this which gives that piquancy to the conversation of a strong-natured farmer or backwoodsman, which all men relish.
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Now every one must do after his kind, be he asp or angel, and these must.
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Men consort in camp and town But the poet dwells alone.
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The narrow sectarian cannot read astronomy with impunity. The creeds of his church shrivel like dried leaves at the door of the observatory.
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We come to our own and would make friends with matter, which the ambitious chatter of the schools would persuade us to despise. We can never part with it the mind loves its old home: as water to our thirst, so is rock, the ground, to our eyes, and hands, and feet. It is firm water: it is cold flame: what health, what affinity!
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
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The great will not condescend to take anything seriously.
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There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads among them take the best places.
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We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only medicating the symptoms. We must begin higher up, namely, in education.
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Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great.
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I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.
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Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man's vision of the future
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All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.
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And striving to be Man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.
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What is civilization? I answer, the power of good women.
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