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What school, college, or lecture bring men depends on what men bring to carry it home in.
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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But in every constitution some large degree of animal vigor is necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the art.
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No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.
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Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief in denying them.
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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
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Henceforth, please God, forever I forego the yolk of men's opinions. I will be light-hearted as a bird and live with God. I find him in the bottom of my heart, and I hear continually his voice therein.
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The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less imports the question of authorship.
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Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.
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Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
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Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.
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Our opinions of the world, are confessions of character.
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Things bring their own philosophy with them, that is, prudence.
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The Gods we worship write their names on our faces be sure of that. And a man will worship something ... That which dominates will determine his life and character. Therefore it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.
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The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the base.
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Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.
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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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I look on Sculpture as history. I do not think the Apollo and the Jove impossible in flesh and blood. Every trait the artist recorded in stone, he had seen in life, and better than his copy.
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The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we may move it....we see literature best from the midst of wild nature, or from the din of affairs, or from a high religion. The field cannot be well seen from within the field.
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Who loses a day loses life.
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There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.
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