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No facts are to me sacred none are profane I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.
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
Waldo Emerson
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Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensable office,--to teach elements. But they can only highly serve us, when they aim not to drill, but to create when they gather from far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls, and, by the concentrated fires, set the hearts of their youth on flame.
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Oh, be my friend, and teach me to be thine!
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Want is a growing giant whom the coat of have was never large enough to cover.
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Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses. What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true.
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Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.
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The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eternal.
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The clergyman who lives in the city may have piety, but he must have taste.
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There are moods in which we court suffering, in the hope that here, at least, we shall find reality, sharp peaks and edges of truth. But it turns out to be scene-painting and counterfeit. The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.
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Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.
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What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from the Heroic or Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans, four or five centuries later? What but this, that every man passes personally through a Grecian period.
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I will not live out of me I will not see with others' eyes My good is good, my evil ill I would be free.
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All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.
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Thefts never enrich alms never impoverish murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie-for example, the taint of vanity, the least attempt to make a good impression, a favorable appearance-will instantly vitiate the effect.
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The attraction and superiority of California are in its days. It has better days & more of them, than any other country.
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The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight.
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If you take in a lie, you must take in all that belongs to it.
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Every stoic was a stoic but in Christendom where is the Christian?
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Every man believes he has a greater possibility.
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Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
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Every time you wink the stars move.
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