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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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Nature is the symbol of Spirit.
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A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.
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What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.
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Life only avails, not the having lived.
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It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men in their religion in their education in their pursuits their modes of living their association in their property in their speculative views.
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Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?
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Oxford is a little aristocracy in itself, numerous and dignified enough to rank with other estates in the realm and where fame and secular promotion are to be had for study, and in a direction which has the unanimous respect of all cultivated nations.
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Marriage (in what is called the spiritual world) is impossible, because of the inequality between every subject and every object.
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Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.
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The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not.
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Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.
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Jesus and Shakespeare are fragments of the soul, and by love I conquer and incorporate them in my own conscious domain. His virtue,--is not that mine? His wit,--if it cannot be made mine, it is not wit.
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A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat self-control is the rule.
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It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.
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