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Art is a jealous mistress and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.
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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These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.
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There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.
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We are always getting ready to live but never living.
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By the irresistible maturing of the general mind, the Christian traditions have lost their hold.
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Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
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A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine. If a singer sing from a sense of duty or from seeing no way to escape,I had rather have none. Those only can sleep who do not care to sleep and those only write or speak best who do not too much respect the writing or the speaking.
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Poverty demoralizes. A man in debt is so far a slave and Wall-street thinks it easy for a millionaire to be a man of his word, aman of honor, but, that, in failing circumstances, no man can be relied on to keep his integrity.
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All natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence.
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Only that is poetry which cleanses and mans me.
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A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us and not done by us.
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There is a remedy for every wrong and a satisfaction for every soul.
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The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial speech.
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Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread.
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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.
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