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A man is a god in ruins.
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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My garden is a forest ledge Which older forest s bound The banks slope down to the blue lake-edge, Then plunge to depths profound!
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Without the great arts which speak to the sense of beauty, a man seems to me a poor, naked, shivering creature. These are his becoming draperies, which warm and adorn him.
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We read often with as much talent as we write.
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Because the soul is progressive, it never quite repeats itself, but in every act attempts the production of a new and fairer whole.
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Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
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Invention breeds invention.
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There are some men above grief and some men below it.
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Let every man shovel out his own snow and the whole city will be passable.
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You cannot make a cheap palace.
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Any work looks wonderful to me except the one which I can do.
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The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tablets yet unbroken: The word by seers or sibyls told, In groves of oak or fanes of gold, Still floats upon the morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind.
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Character is always known. Thefts never enrich alms never impoverish murder will speak out of stone walls.
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The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial speech.
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I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victimized in being brought hither?--or, prior to that, answer me this, Are you victimizable?
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Not in his goals but in his transitions, man is great.
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In a world of infinite choice people are struggling to figure out what to do.
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