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By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.
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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R. W. Emerson
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Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.
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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.
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But whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of persecution always proceeds.
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Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance.
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If a man carefully examine his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead. Such a creature is probably immortal.
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The way to learn German, is, to read the same dozen pages over and over a hundred times, till you know every word and particle in them, and can pronounce and repeat them by heart.
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Not in his goals but in his transitions, man is great.
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I think no virtue goes with size.
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Truth is too simple for us: we do not like those who unmask our illusions.
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It is hard to mesmerize ourselves, to whip our own top but through sympathy we are capable of energy and endurance. Concert fires people to a certain fury of performance they can rarely reach alone.
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The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.
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A divine person is the prophecy of the mind a friend is the hope of the heart.
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Of Nature itself upon the soul the sunrise, the haze of autumn, the winter starlight seem interlocutors the prevailing sense is that of an exposition in poetry a high discourse, the voice of the speaker seems to breathe as much from the landscape as from his own breast it is Nature communing with the seer.
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Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.
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History no longer shall be a dull book. It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man. You shall not tell me by language and titles a catalogue of the volumes you have read. You shall make me feel what periods you have lived.
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He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.
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Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares
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God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
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Economy does not consist in saving the coal, but in using the time while it burns.
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Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.
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