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What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are.
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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We are always getting ready to live, but never living... The wave moves onward but the particles of which it is composed do not... It cannot be but that at intervals throughout society there are real men intermixed . . . as the carpenter puts one iron bar in his bannister for every five or six wooden ones.
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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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There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty.
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The surest poison is time.
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Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
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The eye is the first circle the horizon which it forms is the second and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.
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The terrors of the child are quite reasonable, and add to his loveliness for his utter ignorance and weakness, and his enchanting indignation on such a small basis of capital compel every bystander to take his part.
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There are men too superior to be seen except by a few, as there are notes too high for the scale of most ears.
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The first wealth is health.
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The finest poems of the world have been expedients to get bread.
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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
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The soul is the perceiver and the revealer of truth.
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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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Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again.
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There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet, who lived in some past world, two or three hundred years ago, says that which lies close to my own soul, that which I also had wellnigh thought and said.
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The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.
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Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of the prophets. He saw with an open eye the mystery of the soul. . Alone in all history he estimated the greatness of man.
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Alas for America as I must so often say, the ungirt, the diffuse, the profuse, procumbent, one wide ground juniper, out of which no cedar, no oak will rear up a mast to the clouds! It all runs to leaves, to suckers, to tendrils, to miscellany. The air is loaded with poppy, with imbecility, with dispersion, & sloth.
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