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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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Many a reformer perishes in his removal of rubbish,--and that makes the offensiveness of the class. They are partial they are notequal to the work they pretend. They lose their way in the assault on the kingdom of darkness, they expend all their energy on some accidental evil, and lose their sanity and power of benefit.
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The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.
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No nation has produced anything like his equal. There is no quality in the human mind, there is no class of topics, there is no region of thought, in which he has not soared or descended, and none in which he has not said the commanding word.
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Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.
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The customer is the immediate jewel of our souls. Him we flatter, him we feast, compliment, vote for, and will not contradict.
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Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.
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Out of sleeping a waking, Out of waking a sleep.
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As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
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