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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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R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.
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Every man is wanted, and no man is wanted much.
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The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency.
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The regular course of studies, the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin School.
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The universal does not attract us until housed in an individual.
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The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.
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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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The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal.
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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Their cousins can tell you nothing about them. They lived in their writings, and sotheir house and street life was trivial and commonplace. If you would know their tastes and complexions, the most admiring of their readers most resembles them.
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Society, to be sure, does not like this very well it saith, Whoso goes to walk alone, accuses the whole world he declares all to be unfit to be his companions it is very uncivil, nay, insulting Society will retaliate.
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I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. How far off, how cool, how chaste the persons look,begirt each one with a precinct or sanctuary!
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The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.
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A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engraffed with a foreign stock.
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Never read any book that is not a year old.
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The genius of life is friendly to the noble, and, in the dark, brings them friends from far.
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A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
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