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Greatness once and forever has down with opinion.
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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I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false statement I could never stay there five minutes. But why come out? The streetis as false as the church, and when I get to my house, or to my manners, or to my speech, I have not got away from the lie.
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We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition, whilst all later teachings are tuitions.
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This very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.
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Who does not sometimes envy the good and the brave, who are no more to suffer from the tumults of the natural world, and await with curious complacency the speedy term of his own conversation with finite nature?
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We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.
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The action of the soul is oftener in that which is felt and left unsaid than in that which is said in any conversation. It broods over every society, and men unconsciously seek for it in each other.
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The universe is the externalization of the soul.
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We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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My angel,-his name is Freedom,- Choose him to be your king He shall cut pathways east and west, And fend you with his wing.
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I will not live out of me I will not see with others' eyes My good is good, my evil ill I would be free.
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The simplest words,--we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire.
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