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We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.

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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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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We are as much strangers in nature, as we are aliens from God. We do not understand the notes of birds. The fox and the deer run away from us the bear and tiger rend us. We do not know the uses of more than a few plants, as corn and the apple, the potato and the vine. Is not the landscape, every glimpse of which hath a grandeur, a face of him?
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People say law but they mean wealth.
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That man is idle who can do something better.
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Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.
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A weed is a plant whose virtue is not yet known.
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There are not in the world at any one time more than a dozen persons who read and understand Plato:-never enough to pay for an edition of his works yet to every generation these come duly down, for the sake of those few persons, as if God brought them written in his hand.
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A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.
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Knowledge is the only elegance.
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This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.
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Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its being on every other creature.
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If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.
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For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?
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Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.
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Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.
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Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?
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Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
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America means opportunity, freedom, power.
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If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?
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I am primarily engaged to myself to be a public servant of all the gods, to demonstrate to all men that there is intelligence andgood will at the heart of all things, and even higher and yet higher leadings. These are my engagements how can your law further or hinder me in what I shall do to men?
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Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.
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