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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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There is a principle which is the basis of things, which all speech aims to say, and all action to evolve, a simple, quiet, undescribed, undescribable presence, dwelling very peacefully in us, our rightful lord: we are not to do, but to let do not to work, but to be worked upon.
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In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part.
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The affections cannot keep their youth any more than men.
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Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches.
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.
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I have just been conversing with one man, to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest sentiments, as well as a knot of friends, or a pair of lovers.
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So in accepting the leading of the sentiments, it is not what we believe concerning the immortality of the soul, or the like, but the universal impulse to believe, that is the material circumstance, and is the principal fact in this history of the globe.
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The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that, if you let it alone, it will let you alone.
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Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.
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Nature is too thin a screen the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere
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We flee away from cities, but we bring The best of cities, these learned classifiers, Men knowing what they seek, armed eyes of experts.
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The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible.
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Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.
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It does not to dwell on dreams and forget to live, but it is equally foolish to ignore the past – never forget.
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The motive of science was the extension of man, on all sides, into Nature, till his hands should touch the stars, his eyes see through the earth, his ears understand the language of beast and bird, and the sense of the wind and, through his sympathy, heaven and earth should talk with him. But that is not our science.
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No institution will be better than the institutor.
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Examples are cited by soldiers, of men who have seen the cannon pointed, and the fire given to it, and who have stepped aside from he path of the ball. The terrors of the storm are chiefly confined to the parlour and the cabin.
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The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.
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Vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last,--a long way leading nowhere.
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All reform aims, in some one particular, to let the soul have its way through us in other words, to engage us to obey.
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