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It is about your outlook towards life. You can either regret or rejoice.
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 poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.
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Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation. Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living in the mouths of me.
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Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.
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And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.
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Art is the need to create but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied hands, and of making cripples and monsters, such as all pictures and statues are. Nothing less than the creation of man and nature is its end.
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Every stoic was a stoic but in Christendom where is the Christian?
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Why needs a man be rich? Why must he have horses, fine garments, handsome apartments, access to public houses, and places of amusement? Only for want of thought.
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Thought is the blossom language the bud action the fruit behind it.
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As soon as there is life there is danger.
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Look out! Behind you!
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Fashion, though in a strange way, represents all manly virtue. It is virtue gone to seed: it is a kind of posthumous honor. It does not often caress the great, but the children of the great: it is a hall of the Past.
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Genius is saying what is in your heart, because it's in everyone's heart.
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