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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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To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men - that is genius... Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist... What I must do, is all that concerns me not what the people think... Nothing can bring you peace but yourself nothing, but the triumph of principles.
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Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.
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The world is his who has money to go over it.
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The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.
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The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. Nature never wears a mean appearance.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us and not done by us.
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So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth whispers, 'I can.
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Other world? There is no other world here or nowhere is the whole fact.
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The scholar may lose himself in schools, in words, and become a pedant but when he comprehends his duties, he above all men is arealist, and converses with things.
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The way to mend the bad world is to create the right world.
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Miracle comes to the miraculous, not to the arithmetician.
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Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares
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Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.
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To live the greatest number of good hours is wisdom.
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The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine. The simplicity of nature is not that which may be easily read but is inexhaustible. The last analysis can no wise be made.
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Two sorts of writers possess genius: those who think, and those who cause others to think.
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All the world loves a lover.
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Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.
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What is addressed to us for contemplation does not threaten us, but makes us intellectual beings.
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Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.
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