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When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.
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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Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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A friend, therefore, is a sort of paradox in nature. I who alone am, I who see nothing in nature whose existence I can affirm with equal evidence to my own, behold now the semblance of my being, in all its height, variety, and curiosity, reiterated in a foreign form so that a friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.
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Our prayers are prophets.
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I suppose you could never explain to the most ingenous molusk that such a creature as a whale existed.
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What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?
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Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. The mind does not create what it perceives, anymore than the eye creates the rose.
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Read proudly--put the duty of being read invariably on the author. If he is not read, whose fault is it? I am quite ready to be charmed, but I shall not make-believe I am charmed.
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Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome.
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They think him the best dressed man, whose dress is so fit for his use that you cannot notice or remember to describe it.
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By the irresistible maturing of the general mind, the Christian traditions have lost their hold.
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All my hurts my garden spade can heal.
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I am not so foolish as to declaim against forms. Forms are as essential as bodies but to exalt particular forms, to adhere to oneform a moment after it is outgrown, is unreasonable, and it is alien to the spirit of Christ.
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In imitation is a bit suicide.
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I wish to speak with all respect of persons, but sometimes I must pinch myself to keep awake, and preserve the due decorum. They melt so fast into each other, that they are like grass and trees, and it needs an effort to treat them as individuals.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.
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Commerce is of trivial import love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself is to quote one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything runs to excess every good quality is noxious if unmixed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The household is a school of power. There, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the material creation.
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