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Nature and literature are subjective phenomena every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast
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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All public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized.
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In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.
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Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life.
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Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty.
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The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.
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We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
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No facts are to me sacred none are profane I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.
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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
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Yet some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise, and wherever the vein of thought reaches down into the profound, there is no danger from vanity. Solemn friends will warn them of the danger of the head's being turned by the flourish of trumpets, but they can afford to smile.
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Men of God have always, from time to time, walked among men, and made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer.
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I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality.
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We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.
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The aid we can give each other is only incidental, lateral, and sympathetic.
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Do what you're afraid to do.
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Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new comer like a travelling geologist, who passes through our estate, and shows us good slate, or limestone, or anthracite, in our brush pasture.
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But genius looks forward: the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates.
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The religions we call false were once true.
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Men consort in camp and town But the poet dwells alone.
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It is not the irregular hours or irregular diet that makes the romantic life.
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