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Many photographers think they are photographing nature when they are only caricaturing her.
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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The finest people marry the two sexes in their own person.
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There is no man of Nature's worth In the circle of the earth.
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Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. What they have done commits and enforces them to do the same again. The first act, which was to be an experiment, becomes a sacrament.
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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.
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Who loses a day loses life.
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'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.
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We resent all criticism which denies us anything that lies in our line of advance.
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What is it men love in Genius, but its infinite hope, which degrades all it has done? Genius counts all its miracles poor and short. Its own idea it never executed.
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior...
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I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.
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A little praise goes a great ways.
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Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.
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Duty grows everywhere--like children, like grass.
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If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience.
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But what help from these fineries or pedantries? What help from thought? Life is not dialectics. We, I think, in these times, have had lessons enough of the futility of criticism.
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Our statute is a currency which we stamp with our own portrait.
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I think I have done well, if I have acquired a new word from a good author and my business with him is to find my own, though itwere only to melt him down into an epithet or an image for daily use.
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One single idea may have greater weight than all the men, animals, and machines for a century.
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All science is transcendental or else passes away.
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Fear always springs from ignorance.
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