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Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.
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
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The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine. The simplicity of nature is not that which may be easily read but is inexhaustible. The last analysis can no wise be made.
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We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected.
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We live in succession, in division, in parts and particles. Meantime, within man, is the soul of the whole the wise silence the universal beauty to which every part and particle is equally related the eternal One.
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Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology.
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This knot of nature is so well tied that nobody was ever cunning enough to find the two ends.
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The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
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Every day, the sun and, after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow ever the grass grows. Every day, men and women, conversing, beholding and beholden. The scholar is he of all men whom this spectacle most engages. He must settle its value in his mind. What is nature to him?
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We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause.
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The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books and I think no chair is so much needed.
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Genius has infused itself into nature. It indicates itself by a small excess of good, a small balance in brute facts always favorable to the side of reason.
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Underneath the inharmonious and trivial particulars, is a musical perfection, the Ideal journeying always with us, the heaven without rent or seam.
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Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness. It taught that to love Him was happiness--to love Him in others' virtues.
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The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
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A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant.
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The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.
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If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads, just one year afterwards.
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Every really able man, in whatever direction he works - a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a poet, a painter - if you talk sincerely with him, considers his work, however much admired, as far short of what it should be. What is this Better, this flying Ideal, but the perpetual promise of his Creator?
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Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.
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The primary wisdom is intuition.
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The first wealth is health.
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