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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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R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and grow up slaves.
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We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them
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We do not yet trust the unknown power of thoughts.
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What you persist in doing gets easier. The task hasn't changed, but your ability to do it has increased.
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When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.
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We cannot forgive another for not being ourselves.
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It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters, that whoever can speak can sing. So, probably, every man is eloquent once in his life. Our temperaments differ in capacity of heat, or
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The good judge is not he who does hair-splitting justice to every allegation, but who, aiming at substantial justice, rules something intelligible of the guidance of suitors.
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The common experience is, that the man fits himself as well as he can to the customary details of that work or trade he falls into, and tends it as a dog turns a spit. Then he is part of the machine he moves the man is lost.
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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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Earth endures Stars abide.
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The State is our neighbors our neighbors are the State.
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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.
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Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.
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Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.
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I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.
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Is there a difference? Yes. We are in harmony with nature, but never at peace.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other, and thus makes him necessary to society. ... Society can never prosper, but must always be bankrupt, until every man does that which he was created to do.
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Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.
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