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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions.
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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Conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children, and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism.
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In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part.
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The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails.
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We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men aboutus are dupes. But life is a sincerity.
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In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present.
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Though your views are in straight antagonism to theirs, assume an identity of sentiment, assume that you are saying precisely thatwhich all think, and in the flow of wit and love roll out your paradoxes in solid column, with not the infirmity of a doubt.
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Are you not scared by seeing that the gypsies are more attractive to us than the apostles?
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Headwinds are sore vexations and the more passengers the sorer.
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Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none.
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I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.
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There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest, and which our ordinary education oftenlabors to silence and obstruct.
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home. We imitate and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind?
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The walking of Man is falling forwards.
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Had I but written as many odes in praise of Muhammad and Ali as I have composed for King Mahmud, they would have showered a hundred blessings on me.
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Character wants room must not be crowded on by persons, nor be judged from glimpses got in the press of affairs, or on few occasions. It needs perspective, as a great building.
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If we walk in the woods, we must feed mosquitoes.
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In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.
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The hero is suffered to be himself.
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No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.
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