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Art is a jealous mistress.
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
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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He only is a well-made man who has a good determination.
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As the traveler who has lost his way, throws his reins on his horse's neck, and trusts to the instinct of the animal to find his road, so must we do with the divine animal who carries us through this world
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But to most of us society shows not its face and eye, but its side and back. To stand in true relations with men in a false age isworth a fit of insanity, is it not?
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A state of war or anarchy, in which law has little force, is so far valuable, that it puts every man on trial. The man of principle is known as such, and even in the fury of faction is respected.
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Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.
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A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.
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Fractures well cured make us more strong.
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Who gave thee, O Beauty, The keys of this breast,-- Too credulous lover Of blest and unblest? Say, when in lapsed ages Thee knew I of old? Or what was the service For which I was sold?
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As a man thinketh, so is he, and as a man chooseth, so is he.
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No hope so bright but is the beginning of its own fulfilment.
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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 wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
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The interminable forests should become graceful parks, for use and delight.
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Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.
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These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.
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The world is his who can see through its pretension.
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