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The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.
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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The Gods we worship write their names on our faces be sure of that. And a man will worship something ... That which dominates will determine his life and character. Therefore it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.
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I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victimized in being brought hither?--or, prior to that, answer me this, Are you victimizable?
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A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us and not done by us.
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Let it suffice that in the light of these two facts, namely, that the mind is One, and that nature is its correlative, history isto be read and written.
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Solitary converse with nature for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, and October woods!
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Books are the best of things if well used if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.
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It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
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For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.
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Nature and literature are subjective phenomena every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast
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As gas-light is found to be the best nocturnal police, so the universe protects itself by pitiless publicity.
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How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!
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People wish to be settled only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.
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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
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A beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures it is the finest of fine arts.
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