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A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for 10 minutes longer.

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
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Everything in our world, even a drop of dew, is a microcosm of the universe.
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It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.
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In the death of my son, now more than two years ago, I seem to have lost a beautiful estate,--no more. I cannot get it nearer to me.
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I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals.
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Why should the way I feel depend on the thoughts in someone else's head?
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The advantage of riches remains with him who procured them, not with the heir.
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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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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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Life is girt all round with a zodiac of sciences, the contributions of men who have perished to add their point of light to our sky. ... These road-makers on every hand enrich us. We must extend the area of life and multiply our relations. We are as much gainers by finding a property in the old earth as by acquiring a new planet.
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The world is his who has money to go over it.
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Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul.
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The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, --/ Never read a book that is not a year old./ Never read any but the famed books./ Never read any but what you like.
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We over-estimate the conscience of our friend. His goodness seems better than our goodness, his nature finer, his temptations less. Everything that is his,--his name, his form, his dress, books, and instruments,--fancy enhances. Our own thought sounds new and larger from his mouth.
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He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread
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What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from the Heroic or Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans, four or five centuries later? What but this, that every man passes personally through a Grecian period.
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