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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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Philosopher
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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.
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I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
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In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it.
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The kitchen clock is more convenient than sidereal time. We must use the popular category, as we do by the Linnæan classification, for convenience, and not as exact and final. Otherwise, we are presently confounded, when the best-settled traits of one race are claimed by some new ethnologist as precisely characteristic of the rival tribe.
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A poem is made up of thoughts, each of which filled the whole sky of the poet in its turn.
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He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
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Women have a less accurate measure of time than men there is a clock in Adam, none in Eve.
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Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.
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With each divine impulse the mind rends the thin rinds of the visible and finite, and comes out into eternity, and inspires and expires its air. It converses with truths that have always been spoken in the world, and becomes conscious of a closer sympathy with Zeno and Arrian, than with persons in the house.
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Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.
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He who does a good deed is instantly ennobled. He who does a mean deed is by the action itself contracted.
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Science was false by being unpoetical. It assumed to explain a reptile or a mollusk, and isolated it-which is hunting for life in graveyards. Reptile or mollusk or man or angel only exists in system, in relation.
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Good criticism is very rare and always precious.
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The highest Beauty should be plain set.
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Things bring their own philosophy with them, that is, prudence.
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Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.
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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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Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.
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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
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The universe is the externalization of the soul.
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