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The city is recruited from the country.
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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We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.
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The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that, if you let it alone, it will let you alone.
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The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not.
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The lover of letters loves power too.
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Bonaparte knew but one merit, and rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet, the good player.
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But we need not fear that we can lose any thing by the progress of the soul. The soul may be trusted to the end.
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Excite the soul, and the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear the world itself loses its solidity, nothing remains but the soul and the Divine Presence in which it lives.
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Let ideas establish their legitimate sway again in society, let life be fair and poetic, and the scholars will gladly be lovers, citizens, and philanthropists.
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Ability without honor has no value.
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Every individual man has a bias which he must obey, and...it is only as he feels and obeys this that he rightly develops and attains his legitimate power in the world. It is his magnetic needle, which points always in one direction to his proper path.... He is never happy nor strong until he finds it, keeps it.
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Calmness is always godlike.
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The student is to read history actively and not passively to esteem his own life the text, and books the commentary. Thus compelled, the muse of history will utter oracles as never to those who do not respect themselves.
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When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.
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The people are to be taken in very small doses.
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The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome.
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Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and that state of the mind can only be described by presenting that natural appearance as its picture.
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The most Indian thing about the Indian is surely not his moccasins or his calumet, his wampum or his stone hatched, but traits of character and sagacity, skill, or passion.
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Every man is a channel through which heaven floweth.
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Away with this hurrah of masses, and let us have the considerate vote of single men.
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Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
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