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We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.
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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What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.
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Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest when they are sick or aged. In the morning, or when their intellect or their conscience has been aroused, when they hear music, or when they read poetry, they are radicals.
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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Learn from it... tomorrow is a new day.
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The house is a castle which the King cannot enter.
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In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The city is recruited from the country.
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I give you joy of your free and brave thought. I have great joy in it. I find incomparable things said incomparably well, as they must be. I find the courage of treatment which so delights us, and which large perception only can inspire.
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For, truly speaking, whoever provokes me to a good act or thought has given me a pledge of his fidelity to virtue,--he has come under the bonds to adhere to that cause to which we are jointly attached.
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Luck is just another word for tenacity of purpose.
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Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.
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We love it because it is self dependent, self derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.
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Immitation is suicide.
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It is a luxury to be understood.
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The Bhagavad-Gita is an empire of thought and in its philosophical teachings Krishna has all the attributes of the full-fledged montheistic deity and at the same time the attributes of the Upanisadic absolute.
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The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes.
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One man pins me to the wall, while with another I walk among the stars
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Two sorts of writers possess genius: those who think, and those who cause others to think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The eye is the first circle the horizon which it forms is the second and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
God enters by a private door into every individual.
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The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty is solved by redemption of the soul.
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