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Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought for causes which are unpenetrated.
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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If you follow the suburban fashion in building a sumptuous- looking house for a little money, it will appear to all eyes as a cheap, dear house.
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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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There is nothing but is related to us, nothing that does not interest us,--kingdom, college, tree, horse, or iron show,--the rootsof all things are in man.
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Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.
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What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from the Heroic or Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans, four or five centuries later? What but this, that every man passes personally through a Grecian period.
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You must treat the days respectfully, you must be a day yourself, and not interrogate it like a college professor.
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A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
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Guard your own spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds.
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The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eternal.
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It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.
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A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled, the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates as fast as the sun breeds clouds.
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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser.
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Not in his goals but in his transitions, man is great.
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No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.
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