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We animate what we can see, and we see only what we animate.

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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Philosopher
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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares
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I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
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The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose.
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Numbers serve to discipline rhetoric. Without them it is too easy to follow flights of fancy, to ignore the world as it is and to remold it nearer the heart's desire.
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We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them
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The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling.
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One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. He only is right who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded by worry, fret and anxiety. Finish every day, and be done with it. You have done what you could.
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The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
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Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.
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All the devils respect virtue.
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Calmness is always godlike.
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Do not craze yourself with thinking, but go about your business anywhere.
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Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.
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Thought is the seed of action but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in thought, to the end that it may be uttered and acted. Always in proportion to the depth of its sense does it knock importunately at the gates of the soul, to be spoken, to be done.
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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
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The laws of light and of heat translate each other-so do the laws of sound and colour and so galvanism, electricity and magnetism are varied forms of this selfsame energy.
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Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry, she carries them.
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Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities.
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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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