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What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy only the precursor of the reason.
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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In the moment when you make the least petition to God, though it be but a silent wish that he may approve you, or add one moment to your life,--do you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought? In that act, the soul stands alone with God, and Jesus is no more present to your mind than your brother or your child.
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Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience.
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Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.
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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.
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A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat self-control is the rule.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge and fox and squirrel and mole.
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Every man has a vocation. The talent is the call.
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Youth is everywhere in place.
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What is the hardest task in the world? To think.
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Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence, the book-learned class, who value books, as such not as related to nature and the human constitution, but as making a sort of Third Estate with the world and the soul. Hence, the restorers of readings, the emendators, the bibliomaniacs of all degrees.
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Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.
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True friends are two people who are comfortable sharing silence together.
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Every wall is a door.
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I feel some unwillingness to quit the remembrance of the past. With all the hope of the new I feel that we are leaving the old.
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Never read any book that is not a year old.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All ages of belief have been great all of unbelief have been mean.
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Obedience alone gives the right to command.
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Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life. People only see what they are prepared to see.
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You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.
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Manners are the happy ways of doing things each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.
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