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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 religion which is to guide and fulfill the present and coming ages, whatever else it be, must be intellectual. The scientific mind must have a faith which is science.
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And what is Genius but finer love, a love impersonal, a love of the flower and perfection of things, and a desire to draw a new picture or copy of the same? It looks to the cause and life: it proceeds from within outward, whilst Talent goes from without inward.
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Men have come to speak of the revelation as somewhat long ago given and done, as if God were dead. The injury to faith throttles the preacher and the goodliest of institutions becomes an uncertain and inarticulate voice.
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No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.
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Intellect is a fire rash and pitiless it melts this wonderful bone-house which is called man. Genius even, as it is the greatestgood, is the greatest harm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
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What we commonly call man, the eating, drinking, planting, counting man, does not, as we know him, represent himself, but misrepresents himself. Him we do not respect, but the soul, whose organ he is, would he let it appear through his action, would make our knees bend.
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Culture is one thing and varnish is another.
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The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed.
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Be a gift and a benediction.
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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
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We are always getting ready to live but never living.
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Washington, where an insignificant individual may trespass on a nation's time.
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Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
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The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all valid minds.
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Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdom which cannot help itself.
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Rude poets of the tavern hearth, squandering your unquoted mirth, which keeps the ground, and never soars, while jake retorts, and reuben roars tough and screaming, as birch-bark, goes like bullet to its mark while the solid curse and jeer never balk the waiting ear.
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Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book.
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Beauty through my senses stole I yielded myself to the perfect whole.
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When a man thinks happily, he finds no foot-track in the field he traverses. All spontaneous thought is irrespective of all else.
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