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The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.
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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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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There is simply the rose it is perfect in every moment of its existence.
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I honor health as the first Muse.
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Frankness invites frankness.
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Very few of our race can be said to be yet finished men. We still carry sticking to us some remains of the preceding inferior quadruped organization. We call these millions men but they are not yet men. Half-engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the music that can be brought to disengage him.
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The life of man is a self-evolving circle.
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All that can be done for you is nothing to what you can do for yourself.
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The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.
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When I behold a rich landscape, it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity.
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Art is the need to create but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied hands, and of making cripples and monsters, such as all pictures and statues are. Nothing less than the creation of man and nature is its end.
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The walking of Man is falling forwards.
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We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.
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Let there be worse cotton and better men.
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Providence has a wild, rough, incalculable road to its end, and it is of no use to try to whitewash its huge, mixed instrumentalities, or to dress up that terrific benefactor in a clean shirt and white neckcloth of a student in divinity.
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The hero is suffered to be himself.
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Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle: endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge.
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Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.
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Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens.
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