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If you cannot be free be as free as you can.
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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A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us and not done by us.
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Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.
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Sentimentalists ... adopt whatever merit is in good repute, and almost make it hateful with their praise. The warmer their expressions, the colder we feel.... Cure the drunkard, heal the insane, mollify the homicide, civilize the Pawnee, but what lessons can be devised for the debauchee of sentiment?
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I suppose an entire cabinet of shells would be an expression of the whole human mind a Flora of the whole globe would be so likewise, or a history of beasts or a painting of all the aspects of the clouds. Everything is significant.
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.
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The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.
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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
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