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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
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The picture waits for my verdict it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.
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Honor and fortune exist for him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great, always feels himself in the presence of high causes.
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We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. We can receive anything from love, forthat is a way of receiving it from ourselves but not from any one who assumes to bestow. We sometimes hate the meat which we eat, because there seems something of degrading dependence in living it.
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All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.
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Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.
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Some men, at the approach of a dispute, neigh like horses.
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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other, and thus makes him necessary to society. ... Society can never prosper, but must always be bankrupt, until every man does that which he was created to do.
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There is no architect Can build as the Muse can She is skilful to select Materials for her plan.
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The hero is he who is immovably centered.
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Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread.
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Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.
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I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.
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Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
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The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion.
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But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things.
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Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
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The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.
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Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.
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The influence of fine scenery, the presence of mountains, appeases our irritations and elevates our friendships.
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What you persist in doing gets easier. The task hasn't changed, but your ability to do it has increased.
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