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Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.
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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A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.
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All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.
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We cannot forgive another for not being ourselves.
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Do not be caught by the sensational in nature, as a coarse red-faced sunset, a garrulous waterfall, or a fifteen thousand foot mountain... avoid prettiness - the word looks much like pettiness - and there is but little difference between them.
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The connection between our knowledge and the abyss of being is still real, and the explication must be not less magnificent.
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Do not spill thy soul in running hither and yon, grieving over the mistakes and the vices of others. The one person whom it is most necessary to reform is yourself.
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Do not fear to put novels into the hands of young people as an occasional holiday experiment, but above all, good poetry in all kinds,--epic, tragedy, lyric. If we can touch the imagination, we serve them they will never forget it.
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Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.
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I have heard that stiff people lose something of their awkwardness under high ceilings, and in spacious halls. I think, sculptureand painting have an effect to teach us manners, and abolish hurry.
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When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful, and pleasant as roses, we must thank God that such things can be and are.
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Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again.
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Contemporary American psychiatrist It is a happy talent to know how to play.
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But do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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The value of a dollar is to buy just things a dollar goes on increasing in value with all the genius and all the virtue of the world. A dollar in a university is worth more than a dollar in a jail in a temperate, schooled, law-abiding community than in some sink of crime, where dice, knives, and arsenic are in constant play.
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The life of man is a self-evolving circle.
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It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.
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An action is the perfection and publication of thought. A right action seems to fill the eye, and to be related to all nature.
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The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
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