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We ascribe beauty to that which is simple which has no superfluous parts which exactly answers its end which stands related to all things which is the mean of many extremes.
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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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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Where is he who seeing a thousand men useless and unhappy, and making the whole region forlorn by their inaction, and conscious himself of possessing the faculty they want, does not hear his call to go and be their king?
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Nature is methodical, and doeth her work well. Time is never to be hurried.
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Men are what their mothers made them. You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckabuck why it does not make cashmere as to expect poetry from this engineer or a chemical discovery from that jobber.
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The surest poison is time.
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Be a football to Time and Chance, the more kicks, the better, so that you inspect the whole game and know its utmost law.
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In the true mythology, Love is an immortal child, and Beauty leads him as a guide nor can we express a deeper sense than when we say, Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.
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Good criticism is very rare and always precious.
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We might as easily reprove the east wind, or the frost, as a political party, whose members, for the most part, could give no account of their position, but stand for the defence of those interests in which they find themselves.
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Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.
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Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
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The world exists for the education of each man.
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Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn
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By the irresistible maturing of the general mind, the Christian traditions have lost their hold.
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A man must be clothed with society, or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty, as of a displaced and unfurnished member. He is to be dressed in arts and institutions, as well as in body garments. Now and then a man exquisitely made can live alone, and must but coop up most men and you undo them.
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I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.
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The attraction and superiority of California are in its days. It has better days & more of them, than any other country.
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The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
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As the farmer casts into the ground the finest ears of his grain, the time will come when we too shall hold nothing back, but shall eagerly convert more than we now possess into means and powers, when we shall be willing to sow the sun and the moon for seeds.
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One can never truly savor success until first tasting adversity.
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