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Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.
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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The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.
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People suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is impossible for a person to be cheated by anyone but himself.
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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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Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long.
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The secret in education lies in respecting the student.
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Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul.
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Want is a growing giant whom the coat of have was never large enough to cover.
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Why needs a man be rich? Why must he have horses, fine garments, handsome apartments, access to public houses, and places of amusement? Only for want of thought.
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The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.
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Cities of mortals woe-begone Fantastic care derides, But in the serious landscape lone Stern benefit abides.
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Away with this hurrah of masses, and let us have the considerate vote of single men.
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There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep.
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Knowledge, Virtue, Power are the victories of man over his necessities, his march to the dominion of the world.
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Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.
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Free should be the scholar - free and brave.
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If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it at any rate, brag.
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Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
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But a public oration is an escapade, a non-committal, an apology, a gag, and not a communication, not a speech, not a man.
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God is our name for the last generalization to which we can arrive.
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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