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Genius is power, talent is applicability.
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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Boston
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R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.
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As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
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A philosopher must be more than a philosopher.
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Man's actions are the picture book of his creeds.
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They think him the best dressed man, whose dress is so fit for his use that you cannot notice or remember to describe it.
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The greatest genius is the most indebted person.
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Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot know.
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No facts are to me sacred none are profane I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.
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Neither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair.
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In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.
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Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. What they have done commits and enforces them to do the same again. The first act, which was to be an experiment, becomes a sacrament.
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The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.
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Nature never rhymes her children, nor makes two men alike. When we see a great man, we fancy a resemblance to some historical person, and predict the sequel of his character and fortune, a result which he is sure to disappoint. None will ever solve the problem of his character according to our prejudice, but only in his high unprecedented way.
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If we walk in the woods, we must feed mosquitoes.
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Culture is one thing and varnish is another.
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