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Great men exist that there might be greater men.
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 judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
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Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul. What he announces, I must find true in me, or reject and on his word, or as his second, be he who he may, I can accept nothing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of its limbs and senses.
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The dearest events are summer-rain.
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An action is the perfection and publication of thought. A right action seems to fill the eye, and to be related to all nature.
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There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The hero is suffered to be himself.
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Lose yourself in nature and find peace
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Natural religion supplies still all the facts which are disguised under the dogma of popular creeds. The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu, and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result. These samples attested the virtue of the tree.
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Neither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair.
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Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.
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Tis the good reader that makes the good book a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let a man then know his worth and keep things under his feet.
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Happy is the house that shelters a friend.
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The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance.
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Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?
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By the irresistible maturing of the general mind, the Christian traditions have lost their hold.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
