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Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
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
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It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu, and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result. These samples attested the virtue of the tree.
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I honor health as the first muse, and sleep as the condition of health. Sleep benefits mainly by the sound health it produces incidentally also by dreams, into whose farrago a divine lesson is sometimes slipped.
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Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.
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The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature.
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The true poem is the poet's mind.
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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other, and thus makes him necessary to society. ... Society can never prosper, but must always be bankrupt, until every man does that which he was created to do.
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To eat bread is one thing to love the precepts of Christ and resolve to obey them is quite another.
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The lover of letters loves power too.
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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
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We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.
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The goitre of egotism is so frequent among notable persons, that we must infer some strong necessity in nature which it subservessuch as we see in the sexual attraction.
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How much finer things are in composition than alone.
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Why should the way I feel depend on the thoughts in someone else's head?
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