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Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.
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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As gas-light is found to be the best nocturnal police, so the universe protects itself by pitiless publicity.
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Astronomy is a cold, desert science, with all its pompous figures,-depends a little too much on the glass-grinder, too little on the mind. 'T is of no use to show us more planets and systems. We know already what matter is, and more or less of it does not signify.
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The motive of science was the extension of man, on all sides, into Nature, till his hands should touch the stars, his eyes see through the earth, his ears understand the language of beast and bird, and the sense of the wind and, through his sympathy, heaven and earth should talk with him. But that is not our science.
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Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
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Marriage (in what is called the spiritual world) is impossible, because of the inequality between every subject and every object.
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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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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the sea.
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If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways, I keep and pass and turn again.
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The great will not condescend to take anything seriously.
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Ever fresh the broad creation, A divine improvisation, From the heart of God proceeds, A single will, a million deeds.
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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By God, I will not obey this filthy enactment!
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The beautiful is never plentiful.
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The city is recruited from the country.
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Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding
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We do not yet trust the unknown power of thoughts.
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The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from.
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