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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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Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances: it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at right time, or it was so then, and another day it would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
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There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.
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The eye is the first circle the horizon which it forms is the second and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.
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Health, south wind, books, old trees, a boat, a friend.
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No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.
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Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one Nothing is fair or good alone.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I would study, I would know, I would admire forever.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature avenges herself speedily on the hard pedantry that would chain her waves. She is no literalist. Every thing must be taken genially, and we must be at the top of our condition, to understand any thing rightly.
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I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly disparity between age and youth.
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What a new face courage puts on everything!
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Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.
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I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world. With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations of nature.
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The lord is the peasant that was, The peasant is the lord that shall be.
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Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let us unlearn our wisdom of the world. Let us lie low in the Lord's power, and learn that truth alone makes rich and great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment and even obstacles and opposition will but make us like the fabled specter-ships, which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.
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What we seek we shall find what we flee from flees from us.
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To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone.
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To a physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
