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Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul.
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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We expect a great man to be a good reader.
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In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes.
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The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from.
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Happy is the hearing man unhappy the speaking man.
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A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.
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I can believe a miracle because I can raise my own arm. I can believe a miracle because I can remember. I can believe it because I can speak and be understood by you.
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Our thinking is a pious reception.
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The goitre of egotism is so frequent among notable persons, that we must infer some strong necessity in nature which it subservessuch as we see in the sexual attraction.
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Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so.
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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
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The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength. You say there is no religion now. 'Tis like saying in rainy weather, There is no sun, when at that moment we are witnessing one of its superlative effects.
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Proverbs, words, and grammar inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision, than the wisest individual.
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The river knows the way to the sea: Without a pilot it runs and falls, Blessing all lands with its charity.
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He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread
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The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life.
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I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.
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With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy. Round it all the muses sing.
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Our health is our sound relation to external objects our sympathy with external being.
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