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What we call results are beginnings.
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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Science does not know its debt to imagination.
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Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.
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Thought is the blossom language the bud action the fruit behind it.
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Men of God have always, from time to time, walked among men, and made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer.
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What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from the Heroic or Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans, four or five centuries later? What but this, that every man passes personally through a Grecian period.
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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.
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Personal rights, universally the same, demand a government framed on the ratio of the census: property demands a government framedon the ratio of owners and of owning.
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Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches.
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Commonsense is the wick of the candle.
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The action of the soul is oftener in that which is felt and left unsaid than in that which is said in any conversation. It broods over every society, and men unconsciously seek for it in each other.
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The passive master lent his hand, To the vast Soul which o'er him planned.
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The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple.
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I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. How far off, how cool, how chaste the persons look,begirt each one with a precinct or sanctuary!
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Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody.
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Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.
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Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot know.
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As soon as a child has left the room his strewn toys become affecting.
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What we commonly call man, the eating, drinking, planting, counting man, does not, as we know him, represent himself, but misrepresents himself. Him we do not respect, but the soul, whose organ he is, would he let it appear through his action, would make our knees bend.
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A man must keep an eye on his servants, if he would not have them rule him.
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