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If you act, you show character if you sit still, you show it if you sleep you show it.
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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Had I but written as many odes in praise of Muhammad and Ali as I have composed for King Mahmud, they would have showered a hundred blessings on me.
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All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.
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Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.
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I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.
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In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in each man's skin, - seven or eight ancestors at least, and they constitute the variety of notes for that new piece of music which his life is.
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Nature never rhymes her children, nor makes two men alike. When we see a great man, we fancy a resemblance to some historical person, and predict the sequel of his character and fortune, a result which he is sure to disappoint. None will ever solve the problem of his character according to our prejudice, but only in his high unprecedented way.
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The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.
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Science was false by being unpoetical. It assumed to explain a reptile or a mollusk, and isolated it-which is hunting for life in graveyards. Reptile or mollusk or man or angel only exists in system, in relation.
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I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page.
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If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it at any rate, brag.
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And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.
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The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments.
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I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.
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If we walk in the woods, we must feed mosquitoes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Society cannot do without cultivated men. As soon as the first wants are satisfied, the higher wants become imperative.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The true poem is the poet's mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest when they are sick or aged. In the morning, or when their intellect or their conscience has been aroused, when they hear music, or when they read poetry, they are radicals.
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