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The great will not condescend to take anything seriously.
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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Among the multitude of scholars and authors, we feel no hallowing presence we are sensible of a knack and skill rather than of inspiration they have a light, and know not whence it comes, and call it their own their talent is some exaggerated faculty, some overgrown member, so that their strength is a disease.
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The best of life is conversation.
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The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
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Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it it does not unsettle him, or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles it is an act quite easy to be contemplated.
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It is true that genius takes its rise out of the mountains of rectitude that all beauty and power which men covet are somehow born out of that Alpine district that any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.
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The house is a castle which the King cannot enter.
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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
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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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Society cannot do without cultivated men. As soon as the first wants are satisfied, the higher wants become imperative.
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The gentleman is a man of truth.
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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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Surely nobody would be a charlatan, who could afford to be sincere.
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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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Never lose an opportunity to see anything that is beautiful. It is God's handwriting a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower.
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As gas-light is found to be the best nocturnal police, so the universe protects itself by pitiless publicity.
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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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Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it
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Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may well call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate.
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The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss of wealth, a loss of friends, seems at the moment unpaid loss, and unpayable. But the sure years reveal the deep remedial force that underlies all facts.
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There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works.
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