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The poorest experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought
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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Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and so ridiculous.
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
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We fetch fire and water, run about all day among the shops and markets, and get our clothes and shoes made and mended, and are thevictims of these details, and once in a fortnight we arrive perhaps at a rational moment.
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In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present estate.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I always seem to suffer some loss of faith on entering cities.
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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.
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All natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence.
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
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Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function living is the functionary.
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No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.
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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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No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.
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Man is the dwarf of himself.
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We resent all criticism which denies us anything that lies in our line of advance.
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When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not in his goals but in his transitions, man is great.
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Many a profound genius, I suppose, who fills the world with fame of his exploding renowned errors, is yet everyday posed and baffled by trivial questions at his own supper table.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man believes he has a greater possibility.
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The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character is that which can do without success.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
