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A day is a miniature eternity.

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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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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The passive master lent his hand, To the vast Soul which o'er him planned.
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The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.
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The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself is to quote one.
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Accept your genius and say what you think.
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We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
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The picture waits for my verdict it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.
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I have heard that stiff people lose something of their awkwardness under high ceilings, and in spacious halls. I think, sculptureand painting have an effect to teach us manners, and abolish hurry.
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The good judge is not he who does hair-splitting justice to every allegation, but who, aiming at substantial justice, rules something intelligible of the guidance of suitors.
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Let us take our bloated nothingness out of the path of the divine circuits.
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Chiefly the sea-shore has been the point of departure to knowledge, as to commerce. The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
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Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation.
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The bulk of mankind believe in two gods. They are under one dominion here in the house, as friend and parent, in social circles, in letters, in art, in love, in religion but in mechanics, in dealing with steam and climate, in trade, in politics, they think they come under another.
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To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.
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We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates. We read the quotation with his eyes, andfind a new and fervent sense as a passage from one of the poets, well recited, borrows new interest from the rendering. As the journals say, the italics are ours.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.
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The highest Beauty should be plain set.
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The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
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Take the place and attitude to which you see your unquestionable right, and all men acquiesce.
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