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We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.
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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Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions.
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The secret of success in education is respecting the students.
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Surely nobody would be a charlatan, who could afford to be sincere.
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A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.
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Let us take our bloated nothingness out of the path of the divine circuits.
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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
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We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience, or we shall learn nothing rightly.
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As soon as a child has left the room his strewn toys become affecting.
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Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.
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I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature.
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Be yourself no base imitator of another, but your best self.
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A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.
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You can take better care of your secret than another can.
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He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
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The noblest ministry of nature is to stand as the apparition of God.
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There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.
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Life is not intellectual or critical, but sturdy. Its chief good is for well-mixed people who can enjoy what they find, without question.
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I would study, I would know, I would admire forever.
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How much of human life is lost in waiting.
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