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No man can have society upon his own terms.
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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The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.
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Discontent is want of self-reliance it is infirmity of will.
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As soon as a child has left the room his strewn toys become affecting.
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Earth's a howling wilderness, Truculent with fraud and force.
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Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.
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[A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand.
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A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
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