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An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.
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
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And, in fine, the ancient precept, Know thyself, and the modern precept, Study nature, become at last one maxim.
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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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The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less imports the question of authorship.
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The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm within which endangers him[,] not the storm without.
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Whilst all the world is in pursuit of power, culture corrects the theory of success.
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If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more.
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We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.
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I believe it is the conviction of the purest men, that the net amount of man and man does not much vary. Each is incomparably superior to his companion in some faculty. His want of skill in other directions, has added to his fitness for his own work.
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Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a great city, and no man knows what is safe, or where it will end.
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This knot of nature is so well tied that nobody was ever cunning enough to find the two ends.
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The forest is my loyal friend A Delphic shrine to me.
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Line in Nature is not found Unit and Universe are round.
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The world is young: the former great men call to us affectionately. We too must write Bibles, to unite again the heavens and the earthly world.
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Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.
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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
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It is sublime to think and say of another, I need never meet, or speak, or write to him: we need not reinforce ourselves, or send tokens of remembrance I rely on him as on myself: if he did thus and thus, I know it was right.
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The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not.
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Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.
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Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape, and bodily exercise on the mind.
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Knowledge is the antidote to fear. [especially as fear often stands for false evidence appearing real!]
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