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Every man is eloquent once in his life.
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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So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.
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Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
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Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.
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The terrors of the child are quite reasonable, and add to his loveliness for his utter ignorance and weakness, and his enchanting indignation on such a small basis of capital compel every bystander to take his part.
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God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
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There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect and poets by nature, these we love.
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All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effiminated by position of nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.
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If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
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Humility is the secret of the wise.
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Free should be the scholar - free and brave.
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When the literary class betray a destitution of faith, it is not strange that society should be disheartened and sensualized by unbelief.
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My angel,-his name is Freedom,- Choose him to be your king He shall cut pathways east and west, And fend you with his wing.
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The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
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The universal does not attract us until housed in an individual.
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Nothing is quite beautiful alone nothing but is beautiful in the whole. A single object is only so far beautiful as it suggests this universal grace.
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I believe in Eternity. I can find Greece, Palestine, Italy, Spain, and the Islands, - the Genius and creative Principle of each and of all eras, in my own mind.
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They think him the best dressed man, whose dress is so fit for his use that you cannot notice or remember to describe it.
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The tempered light of the woods is like a perpetual morning.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best conversation is rare. Society seems to have agreed to treat fictions as realities, and realities as fictions and the simple lover of truth, especially if on very high grounds, as a religious or intellectual seeker, finds himself a stranger and alien.
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