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The forest is my loyal friend A Delphic shrine to me.
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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In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes.
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I didn't find my friends the good Lord gave them to me.
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Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a century, and dwarfs an age to an hour.
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There is a principle which is the basis of things, which all speech aims to say, and all action to evolve, a simple, quiet, undescribed, undescribable presence, dwelling very peacefully in us, our rightful lord: we are not to do, but to let do not to work, but to be worked upon.
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All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.
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Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.
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I like people who like Plato.
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Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
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When there is sympathy, there needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise,--so, a blockhead makes a blockhead of his companion. Wonderful power to benumb possesses this brother.
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There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep.
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A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.
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Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.
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Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown and distant star.
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Fear always springs from ignorance.
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In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made different? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.
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Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is, on so many occasions, of chief importance,--a certain robust and radiant physical health or--shall I say?--great volumes of animal heat.
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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
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Natural religion supplies still all the facts which are disguised under the dogma of popular creeds. The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals.
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The crystal sphere of thought is as concentrical as the geological structure of the globe. As our soils and rocks lie in strata, concentric strata, so do all men's thinkings run laterally, never vertically.
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Music is the poor man's Parnassus.
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