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Nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere.
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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Nature is saturated with Deity.
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In every situation do the thing you fear. If you do the thing you fear, the death of fear is certain.
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The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.
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History no longer shall be a dull book. It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man. You shall not tell me by language and titles a catalogue of the volumes you have read. You shall make me feel what periods you have lived.
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We are not free to use today, or to promise tomorrow, because we are already mortgaged to yesterday.
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The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency.
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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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We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.
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Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.
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