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The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.
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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Our books approach very slowly the things we most wish to know.
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Tis weak and vicious people who cast the blame on Fate. The right use of Fate is to bring up our conduct to the loftiness of nature.
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The eye is the painter and the ear the singer.
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What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health.
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We don't grow old. When we cease to grow, we become old.
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A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.
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I honor health as the first Muse.
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A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.
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There can never be deep peace between two spirits, never mutual respect, until, in their dialogue, each stands for the whole world.
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Tragedy is in the eye of the observer, and not in the heart of the sufferer.
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A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill.
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The connection between our knowledge and the abyss of being is still real, and the explication must be not less magnificent.
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If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none. If there is grandeur in you, you will find grandeur in porters and sweeps.
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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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It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters, that whoever can speak can sing. So, probably, every man is eloquent once in his life. Our temperaments differ in capacity of heat, or
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Everything has its price - and if that price is not paid, not that thing but something else is obtained... it is impossible to get anything without this price.
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Each particle is a microcosm, and faithfully renders the likeness of the world.
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If any mention was made of homicide, madness, adultery, and intolerable tortures, we would let the church-bells ring louder, the church-organ swell its peal and drown the hideous sound. The sugar they raised was excellent: nobody tasted blood in it.
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