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He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread
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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Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.
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We are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn betrays its ancestor.
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So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.
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A self-denial, no less austere than the saint's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forgo all things for that,and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented.
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Guard your own spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds.
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He only is rich who owns the day.
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One of our statesmen said, The curse of this country is eloquent men.
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We love it because it is self dependent, self derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.
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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the sea.
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A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat self-control is the rule.
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[D]ivine Providence... keeps the universe open in every direction to the soul.
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The borrower runs in his own debt.
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The world is the ring of his spells, And the play of his miracles.
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The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance and it straightens itself to the average tendency.
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All diseases run into one, old age.
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To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.
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An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.
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Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant.
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