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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
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So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth whispers, 'I can.
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An action is the perfection and publication of thought. A right action seems to fill the eye, and to be related to all nature.
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All the great ages have been ages of belief.
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I believe in Eternity. I can find Greece, Palestine, Italy, Spain, and the Islands, - the Genius and creative Principle of each and of all eras, in my own mind.
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Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State.
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A man in pursuit of greatness feels no little wants.
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There is no great and no small To the Soul that maketh all.
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We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.
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It is time to be old To take in sail.
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As we refine, our checks become finer. If we rise to spiritual culture, the antagonism takes a spiritual form.
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He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread
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The language of the street is always strong.
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All the world loves a lover.
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The cities drain the country of the best part of its population: the flower of the youth, of both sexes, goes into the towns, andthe country is cultivated by a so much inferior class. The land,--travel a whole day together,--looks poverty-stricken, and the buildings plain and poor.
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He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself.
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The boxer's ring is the enjoyment of the part of society whose animal nature alone has been developed.
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Solitude is naught and society is naught. Alternate them and the good of each is seen.
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You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God you shall not have both.
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The finest poetry was first experience.
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As men get on in life, they acquire a love for sincerity, and somewhat less solicitude to be lulled or amused. In the progress ofthe character, there is an increasing faith in the moral sentiment, and a decreasing faith in propositions.
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