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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
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Essayist
Philosopher
Poet
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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Inferiority
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Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.
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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is handsomer to remain in the establishment better than the establishment, and conduct that in the best manner, than to make asally against evil by some single improvement, without supporting it by a total regeneration.
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Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.
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Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
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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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The House ...She lays her beams in music, In music everyone, To the cadence of the whirling world Which dances around the sun- That so they shall not be displaced By lapses or by wars, But for the love of happy souls Outlive the newest stars.
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Yourself a newborn bard of the Holy Ghost, cast behind you all conformity, and acquaint men at first hand with Deity.
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Our thinking is a pious reception.
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Every reform was once a private opinion.
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Whilst all the world is in pursuit of power, culture corrects the theory of success.
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Every word we speak is million-faced or convertible to an indefinite number of applications. If it were not so we could read no book. Your remark would only fit your case, not mine.
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In these divine pleasures permitted to me of walks in the June night under moon and stars, I can put my life as a fact before me and stand aloof from its honor and shame.
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Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities.
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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
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Let ideas establish their legitimate sway again in society, let life be fair and poetic, and the scholars will gladly be lovers, citizens, and philanthropists.
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I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.
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One thing is forever good That one thing is Success.
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No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.
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There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.
Ralph Waldo Emerson