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The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite.
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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The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity.
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But a public oration is an escapade, a non-committal, an apology, a gag, and not a communication, not a speech, not a man.
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Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul.
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Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
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Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.
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What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.
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The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world is his who has money to go over it.
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The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
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Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.
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You will think me very pedantic, gentlemen, but holiday though it may be, I have not the smallest interest in any holiday, except as it celebrates real and not pretended joys.
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We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.
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Mankind divides itself into two classes,--benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast the first a handful.
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We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.
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We do not yet trust the unknown power of thoughts.
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Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.
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Our distrust is very expensive.
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All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us.
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Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.
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The man in the street does not know a star in the sky.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
