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A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill.
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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Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . .
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Prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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Desire is possibility seeking expression.
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The whole of what we know is a system of compensation. Every defect in one manner is made up in another. Every suffering is rewarded every sacrifice is made up every debt is paid.
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Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.
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A man becomes what he thinks about most of the time
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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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Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.
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One single idea may have greater weight than all the men, animals, and machines for a century.
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Man's actions are the picture book of his creeds.
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A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.
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Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.
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[D]ivine Providence... keeps the universe open in every direction to the soul.
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The world is always childish, and with each new gewgaw of a revolution or new constitution that it finds, thinks it shall never cry any more.
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