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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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Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.
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You must treat the days respectfully, you must be a day yourself, and not interrogate it like a college professor.
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To be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false,--this is the mark and character of intelligence.
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No facts to me are sacred none are profane.
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A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.
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I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River, when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.
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Because the soul is progressive, it never quite repeats itself, but in every act attempts the production of a new and fairer whole.
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Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.
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The soul refuses limits and always affirms an optimism, never a pessimism.
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If the king is in the palace, nobody looks at the walls. It is when he is gone, and the house is filled with grooms and gazers, that we turn from the people, to find relief in the majestic men that are suggested by the pictures and the architecture.
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Bonaparte knew but one merit, and rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet, the good player.
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There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to his task. What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us?
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