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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.
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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Man was born to be rich, or to inevitably grow rich, by the use of his faculties: by the union of thought with nature.
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Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
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All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man has taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.
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Tomorrow is a new day begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
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Who loses a day loses life.
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The charm of fine manners is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of these arts.
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In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.
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It is noticed, that the consideration of the great periods and spaces of astronomy induces a dignity of mind, and an indifferenceto death.
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Our expense is almost all for conformity. It is for cake that we run in debt 'tis not the intellect, not the heart, not beauty, not worship, that costs so much.
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True friends are two people who are comfortable sharing silence together.
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The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.
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In every situation do the thing you fear. If you do the thing you fear, the death of fear is certain.
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Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.
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Let ideas establish their legitimate sway again in society, let life be fair and poetic, and the scholars will gladly be lovers, citizens, and philanthropists.
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A human being should beware how he laughs, for then he shows all his faults.
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In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.
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When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
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To believe in luck ... is skepticism.
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It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself.
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I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity. All men, all things, the state, the church, yea the friends of the heart are phantasms and unreal beside the sanctuary of the heart. With so much awe, with so much fear, let it be respected.
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