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Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
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, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience, or we shall learn nothing rightly.
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We pray to be conventional. But the wary Heaven takes care you shall not be, if there is anything good in you. Dante was very badcompany, and was never invited to dinner.
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Pride is handsome, economical pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that it seems as if it were a great gain to exchange vanity for pride.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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A man of good sense but of little faith, whose compassion seemed to lead him to church as often as he went there, said to me 'that he liked to have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and other public amusements go on.
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I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.
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The laws of light and of heat translate each other-so do the laws of sound and colour and so galvanism, electricity and magnetism are varied forms of this selfsame energy.
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Immitation is suicide.
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By God, I will not obey this filthy enactment!
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Only that is poetry which cleanses and mans me.
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Love is our highest word and the synonym of God.
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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.
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Culture is one thing and varnish is another.
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Literature is eavesdropping.
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What we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so. We form no guess, at the time of receiving a thought, of its comparative value. And education often wastes its effort in attempts to thwart and balk this natural magnetism, which is sure to select what belongs to it.
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The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength. You say there is no religion now. 'Tis like saying in rainy weather, There is no sun, when at that moment we are witnessing one of its superlative effects.
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Every man is the inlet and may become the outlet of all there is in God.
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What the tender and poetic youth dreams to-day, and conjures up with inarticulate speech, is to-morrow the vociferated result of public opinion, and the day after is the character of nations.
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Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn nature's oldest force is as good as new.
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There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.
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