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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
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My life should be unique it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.
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We fancy men are individuals so are pumpkins but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.
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In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part.
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The frost which kills the harvest of a year saves the harvest of a century, by destroying the weevil or the locust.
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Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it
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Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a century, and dwarfs an age to an hour.
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The Soul rules over matter. Matter may pass away like a mote in the sunbeam, may be absorbed into the immensity of God, as a mistis absorbed into the heat of the Sun--but the soul is the kingdom of God, the abode of love, of truth, of virtue.
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Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.
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To be great, you must be misunderstood
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That which dominates our imagination and our thoughts will determine our life and character.
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The time will come when the evil forms we have known can no more be organized. Man's culture can spare nothing, wants all material. He is to convert all impediments into instruments, all enemies into power.
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A great mind is a good sailor, as a great heart is.
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Treat your friend as a spectacle.
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Conversation is a game of circles.
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You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. You send him to the Latin class, but much of histuition comes, on his way to school, from the shop- windows.
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A gentleman makes no noise a lady is serene.
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Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day.
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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
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Conservatism is affluent and openhanded, but there is a cunning juggle in riches. I observe that they take somewhat for everythingthey give. I look bigger, but am less I have more clothes, but am nit so warm more armor, but less courage more books, but less wit.
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