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Do what you know and perception is converted into character.
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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Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.
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I like my boy with his endless sweet soliloquies and iterations and his utter inability to conceive why I should not leave all my nonsense, business, and writing and come to tie up his toy horse, as if there was or could be any end to nature beyond his horse. And he is wiser than we when [he] threatens his whole threat I will not love you.
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Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn.
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Among the multitude of scholars and authors, we feel no hallowing presence we are sensible of a knack and skill rather than of inspiration they have a light, and know not whence it comes, and call it their own their talent is some exaggerated faculty, some overgrown member, so that their strength is a disease.
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The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books and I think no chair is so much needed.
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We are as much strangers in nature, as we are aliens from God. We do not understand the notes of birds. The fox and the deer run away from us the bear and tiger rend us. We do not know the uses of more than a few plants, as corn and the apple, the potato and the vine. Is not the landscape, every glimpse of which hath a grandeur, a face of him?
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The eye is the best of artists.
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Every man is wanted, and no man is wanted much.
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Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.
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Beauty brings its own fancy price, for all that a man hath will he give for his love.
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But genius is religious. It is a larger imbibing of the common heart.
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
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Sometimes we receive the power to say yes to life. Then peace enters us and makes us whole.
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The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.
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Let a man then know his worth and keep things under his feet.
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The last change in our point of view gives the whole world a pictorial air.
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All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature.
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How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.
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You think me the child of circumstance I make my circumstance.
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Numbers serve to discipline rhetoric. Without them it is too easy to follow flights of fancy, to ignore the world as it is and to remold it nearer the heart's desire.
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