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I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight or broad human sentiment.
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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Idealism sees the world in God. It beholds the whole circle of persons and things, of actions and events, of country and religion,not as painfully accumulated, atom after atom, act after act, in an aged creeping Past, but as one vast picture, which God paints on the instant eternity, for the contemplation of the soul.
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All things are moral and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature.
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Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?.
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Come out of the azure. Love the day. Do not leave the sky out of your landscape.
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Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.
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Self reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.
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By virtue of the Deity thought renews itself inexhaustibly every day and the thing whereon it shines, though it were dust and sand, is a new subject with countless relations.
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
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You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God you shall not have both.
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You must let go of a thing for a new one to come to you.
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There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding.
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Let us unlearn our wisdom of the world. Let us lie low in the Lord's power, and learn that truth alone makes rich and great.
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It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual wants, never to please his fancy.
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The way to mend the bad world is to create the right world.
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Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized now for two hundred years.
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The life of man is a self-evolving circle.
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Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.
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As long as any man exists, there is some need of him.
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Thy dangerous glances make women of men new-born, we are melting into nature again.
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Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first for example, a well-laid garden and nothing seems worth doing but the laying~out of gardens.
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