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We expect a great man to be a good reader.
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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I like my boy with his endless sweet soliloquies and iterations and his utter inability to conceive why I should not leave all my nonsense, business, and writing and come to tie up his toy horse, as if there was or could be any end to nature beyond his horse. And he is wiser than we when [he] threatens his whole threat I will not love you.
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Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.
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I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.
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Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.
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The best of life is conversation.
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The walking of Man is falling forwards.
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And so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance.
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Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used.
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The dice of God are always loaded.
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It is curious that Christianity, which is idealism, is sturdily defended by the brokers, and steadily attacked by the idealists.
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Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.
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The remedy for all blunders, the cure of blindness, the cure of crime, is love.
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You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.
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The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land.
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Reality is a sliding door.
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