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Men are lenses through which we read our own minds.
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
Waldo Emerson
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When a man becomes cultivated, he develops a new respect for who he is. This causes him to be ashamed of his past identification of himself and others according to things, i.e. property.
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The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.
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The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
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Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven depending on whether they compare it to something better and so feel disappointed and bitter or something worse and so feel relieved and grateful.
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No facts to me are sacred none are profane.
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Nothing is quite beautiful alone nothing but is beautiful in the whole. A single object is only so far beautiful as it suggests this universal grace.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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Society is the stage on which manners are shown novels are the literature. Novels are the journal or record of manners and the new importance of these books derives from the fact, that the novelist begins to penetrate the surface, and treat this part of life more worthily.
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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 first lesson of history is that evil is good.
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Reality is a sliding door.
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The most Indian thing about the Indian is surely not his moccasins or his calumet, his wampum or his stone hatched, but traits of character and sagacity, skill, or passion.
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There is no great and no small To the Soul that maketh all.
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He only is a well-made man who has a good determination.
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Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.
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But what help from these fineries or pedantries? What help from thought? Life is not dialectics. We, I think, in these times, have had lessons enough of the futility of criticism.
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Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul.
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What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.
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[A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand.
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