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Solitude is naught and society is naught. Alternate them and the good of each is seen.
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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I am old, yet I look at wise men and see that I am very young. I look over those stars yonder, and into the myriads of the aspirant and ordered souls, and see I am a stranger and a youth and have yet my spurs to win. Too ridiculous are these airs of age.
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The river knows the way to the sea: Without a pilot it runs and falls, Blessing all lands with its charity.
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To clothe the fiery thought In simple words succeeds, For still the craft of genius is To mask a king in weeds.
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We might as easily reprove the east wind, or the frost, as a political party, whose members, for the most part, could give no account of their position, but stand for the defence of those interests in which they find themselves.
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A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.
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There are not in the world at any one time more than a dozen persons who read and understand Plato:-never enough to pay for an edition of his works yet to every generation these come duly down, for the sake of those few persons, as if God brought them written in his hand.
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I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly disparity between age and youth.
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Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.
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So far as a person thinks they are free.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.
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The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple.
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We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. It may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good issues, so it be faithfully imparted, but God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.
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