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Where there is no vision a people perish.
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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Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence, the book-learned class, who value books, as such not as related to nature and the human constitution, but as making a sort of Third Estate with the world and the soul. Hence, the restorers of readings, the emendators, the bibliomaniacs of all degrees.
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Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.
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A man is the prisoner of his power. A topical memory makes him an almanac a talent for debate, disputant skill to get money makes him a miser, that is, a beggar. Culture reduces these inflammations by invoking the aid of other powers against the dominant talent, and by appealing to the rank of powers. It watches success.
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Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens.
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Life is too short to waste . . . 'Twill soon be dark Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark!
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The greatest discoveries are those that shed light unto ourselves.
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In dreams we are true poets we create the persons of the drama we give them appropriate figures faces, costumes they are perfect in their organs, attitudes, manners moreover they speak after their own characters, not ours and we listen with surprise to what they say.
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Invention breeds invention.
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What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.
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Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
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Let us leave hurry to slaves.
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In the death of my son, now more than two years ago, I seem to have lost a beautiful estate,--no more. I cannot get it nearer to me.
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You cannot make a cheap palace.
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The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved.
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The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
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If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect.
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The only prudence in life is concentration.
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The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.
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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.
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Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.
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