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Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.
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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The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contend... The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere is the Government.
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But a public oration is an escapade, a non-committal, an apology, a gag, and not a communication, not a speech, not a man.
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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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Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
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But genius looks forward: the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates.
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If in the least particular, one could derange the order of nature, who would accept the gift of life?
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Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the law-giver is before the law-receiver.
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Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
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We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.
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People who know how to act are never preachers.
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There is nothing in history to parallel the influence of Jesus Christ.
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The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength. You say there is no religion now. 'Tis like saying in rainy weather, There is no sun, when at that moment we are witnessing one of its superlative effects.
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The gentleman is a man of truth, lord of his own actions, and expressing that lordship in his behavior, not in any manner dependent and servile either on persons, or opinions, or possessions.
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The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.
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All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature.
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We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man, man.
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Flowers are the earth laughing.
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The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land.
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My life should be unique it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.
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The secret is the answer to all that has been, all that is, and all that will ever be.
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