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Let a man then know his worth and keep things under his feet.
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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To me, however, the question of the times resolved itself into a practical question of the conduct of life. How shall I live? We are incompetent to solve the times. Our geometry cannot span the huge orbits of the prevailing ideas, behold their return, and reconcile their opposition. We can only obey our own polarity.
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My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.
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The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.
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Let us make education brave and preventive. Politics is an afterwork, a poor patching. We are always a little late... We shall one day learn to supercede politics by education... We must begin higher up, namely in Education.
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You cannot institute, without peril of charlatanism.
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Nothing can be more delicate without being fantastical, nothing more firm and based in nature and sentiment, than the courtship and mutual carriage of the sexes.
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Away with this hurrah of masses, and let us have the considerate vote of single men.
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Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.
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We cannot let our angels go we do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in.
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There are men too superior to be seen except by a few, as there are notes too high for the scale of most ears.
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The walking of Man is falling forwards.
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A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude.
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As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.
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Human character evermore publishes itself. The most fugitive deed and word, the intimated purpose, express character.
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When the gods come among men, they are not known.
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People wish to be settled only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.
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Tis curious that we only believe as deeply as we live.
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Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.
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Women, as most susceptible, are the best index of the coming hour.
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