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Nature encourages no looseness pardons no errors.
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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History no longer shall be a dull book. It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man. You shall not tell me by language and titles a catalogue of the volumes you have read. You shall make me feel what periods you have lived.
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We pass for what we are.
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Draw, if thou canst, the mystic line, Severing rightly his from thine, Which is human, which divine.
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If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.
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We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.
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The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.
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The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs through himself and all things.
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The power of a man increases steadily by continuing in one direction.
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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...man is an analogist, and studies relations in all objects. He is placed in the center of beings, and a ray of relation passes from every other being to him. And neither can man be understood without these objects, nor these objects without man.
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The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation when memory came, it was experience when mind acted, it was knowledge when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.
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Nature is upheld by antagonism.
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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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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
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Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. The mind does not create what it perceives, anymore than the eye creates the rose.
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All great men come out of the middle classes.
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We come to our own and would make friends with matter, which the ambitious chatter of the schools would persuade us to despise. We can never part with it the mind loves its old home: as water to our thirst, so is rock, the ground, to our eyes, and hands, and feet. It is firm water: it is cold flame: what health, what affinity!
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Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.
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I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labor and difficulty he has but to open his eyes to see things in a true light, and in large relations whilst they must make painful corrections, and keep a vigilant eye on many sources of error.
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