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Everything in our world, even a drop of dew, is a microcosm of the universe.
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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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false statement I could never stay there five minutes. But why come out? The streetis as false as the church, and when I get to my house, or to my manners, or to my speech, I have not got away from the lie.
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Religionists are clinging to little, positive, verbal, formal versions of the moral law... while the laws of the Law, the great circling truths whose only adequate symbol is the material laws, the astronomy etc. are all unobserved, and sneered at when spoken of.
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The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
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A nation never falls but by suicide.
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I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature.
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Any relation to the land, the habit of tilling it, or mining it, or even hunting on it, generates the feeling of patriotism. He who keeps shop on it, or he who merely uses it as a support to his desk and ledger, or to his manufactory, values it less.
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Surely nobody would be a charlatan, who could afford to be sincere.
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No hope so bright but is the beginning of its own fulfilment.
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Human society is made up of partialities. Each citizen has an interest and a view of his own, which, if followed out to the extreme, would leave no room for any other citizen.
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How beautiful to have the church always open, so that every tired wayfaring man may come in and be soothed by all that art can suggest of a better world when he is weary with this.
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Poverty demoralizes. A man in debt is so far a slave and Wall-street thinks it easy for a millionaire to be a man of his word, aman of honor, but, that, in failing circumstances, no man can be relied on to keep his integrity.
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The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the low and offensive.
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Thought is the seed of action.
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In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present estate.
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He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that.
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The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.
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Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
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Art is not to be found by touring to Egypt, China, or Peru if you cannot find it at your own door, you will never find it.
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Tragedy is in the eye of the observer, and not in the heart of the sufferer.
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A believer, a mind whose faith is consciousness, is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees.
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