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Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.
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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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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The populace drags down the gods to their own level.
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Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.
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In daily life what distinguishes the master is the using those materials he has, instead of looking about for what are more renowned, or what others have used well.
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It happens to us once or twice in a lifetime to be drunk with some book which probably has some extraordinary relative power to intoxicate us and none other and having exhausted that cup of enchantment we go groping in libraries all our years afterwards in the hope of being in Paradise again.
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Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.
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Nature and literature are subjective phenomena every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast
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Fate is unpenetrated causes.
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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.
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The surest poison is time.
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Why has my motley diary no jokes? Because it is a soliloquy and every man is grave alone.
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Every man is an infinitely repelling orb, and holds his individual being on that condition.
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The eye is easily frightened.
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As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.
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Luck is just another word for tenacity of purpose.
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When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.
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Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go, and is only right admirable when to all its beauty and speed a subserviency to the will, like that of walking, is added.
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The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. Every influx of atheism, of skepticism, is thus made useful as a mercury pill assaulting and removing a diseased religion, and making way for truth.
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God will not make himself manifest to cowards
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Society cannot do without cultivated men. As soon as the first wants are satisfied, the higher wants become imperative.
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