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Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.
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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Boston
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R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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How can we speak of the action of the mind under any divisions, as of its knowledge, of its ethics, of its works, and so forth, since it melts will into perception, knowledge into act? Each becomes the other. Itself alone is.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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So each man, like each plant, has his parasites. A strong, astringent, bilious nature has more truculent enemies than the slugs and moths that fret my leaves. Such a one has curculios, borers, knife-worms a swindler ate him first, then a client, then a quack, then smooth, plausible gentlemen, bitter and selfish as Moloch.
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Man sheds grief as his skin sheds rain.
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Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.
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Immitation is suicide.
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Headwinds are sore vexations and the more passengers the sorer.
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I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old.
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What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health.
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He who does a good deed is instantly ennobled. He who does a mean deed is by the action itself contracted.
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Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
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Tis the good reader that makes the good book in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart.
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Pride is handsome, economical pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that it seems as if it were a great gain to exchange vanity for pride.
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We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them
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Jesus and Shakespeare are fragments of the soul, and by love I conquer and incorporate them in my own conscious domain. His virtue,--is not that mine? His wit,--if it cannot be made mine, it is not wit.
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The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.
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We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science, or sink into that of sensation. Between these extremes is the equator of life, of thought, or spirit, or poetry,--a narrow belt.
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Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim.
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He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
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Speech is better than silence silence is better than speech.
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