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Line in Nature is not found Unit and Universe are round.
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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There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the characterwhich draws them.
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There are not in the world at any one time more than a dozen persons who read and understand Plato:-never enough to pay for an edition of his works yet to every generation these come duly down, for the sake of those few persons, as if God brought them written in his hand.
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The goitre of egotism is so frequent among notable persons, that we must infer some strong necessity in nature which it subservessuch as we see in the sexual attraction.
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Oxford is a little aristocracy in itself, numerous and dignified enough to rank with other estates in the realm and where fame and secular promotion are to be had for study, and in a direction which has the unanimous respect of all cultivated nations.
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Nature will not let us fret and fume. She does not like our benevolence or our learning much better than she likes our frauds andwars. When we come out of the caucus, or the bank, or the abolition-convention, or the temperance-meeting, or the transcendental club, into the fields and woods, she says to us, so hot? my little Sir.
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Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation. Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living in the mouths of me.
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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
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A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.
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The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.
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Conformity is the ape of harmony.
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If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it at any rate, brag.
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Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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Nature is methodical, and doeth her work well. Time is never to be hurried.
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We expect a great man to be a good reader.
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The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out.
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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 clergyman who lives in the city may have piety, but he must have taste.
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I suppose you could never explain to the most ingenous molusk that such a creature as a whale existed.
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Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again.
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