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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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Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.
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The desire of gold is not for gold. It is not the love of much wheat, and wool and household stuff. It is the means of freedom and benefit.
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We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of dolls, drums and horses, withdrawing their eyes from the plain face and... Nature, the sun and moon, the animals, the water and stones, which should be their toys.
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Line in Nature is not found Unit and Universe are round.
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The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page.
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Five minutes of today are worth as much to me, as five minutes in the next millennium. Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.
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The first lesson of history is that evil is good.
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The crime which bankrupts men and nations is that of turning aside from one's main purpose to serve a job here and there.
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You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.
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Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.
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A good deal of our politics is physiological.
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The Soul rules over matter. Matter may pass away like a mote in the sunbeam, may be absorbed into the immensity of God, as a mistis absorbed into the heat of the Sun--but the soul is the kingdom of God, the abode of love, of truth, of virtue.
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The best of life is conversation.
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In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.
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The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tablets yet unbroken: The word by seers or sibyls told, In groves of oak or fanes of gold, Still floats upon the morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind.
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A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.
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I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil.
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Whatever limits us we call fate.
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There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live.
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Cities of mortals woe-begone Fantastic care derides, But in the serious landscape lone Stern benefit abides.
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