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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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Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.
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If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing.
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The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation when memory came, it was experience when mind acted, it was knowledge when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.
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When a dog is chasing after you, whistle for him.
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There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding.
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The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.
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Oxford is a little aristocracy in itself, numerous and dignified enough to rank with other estates in the realm and where fame and secular promotion are to be had for study, and in a direction which has the unanimous respect of all cultivated nations.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Successful is the person who has lived well, laughed often and loved much, who has gained the respect of children, who leaves the world better than they found it, who has never lacked appreciation for the earth's beauty, who never fails to look for the best in others or give the best of themselves.
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Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.
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Our expense is almost all for conformity. It is for cake that we run in debt 'tis not the intellect, not the heart, not beauty, not worship, that costs so much.
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I will no longer confer, differ, refer, defer, prefer, or suffer. I renounce the whole tribe of fero. I embrace absolute life.
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Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.
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Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.
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Be an opener of doors
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We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim.
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As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.
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The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses.
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And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.
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It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.
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And last of all, high over thought, in the world of morals, Fate appears as vindicator, levelling the high, lifting the low, requiring justice in man, and always striking soon or late when justice is not done. What is useful will last, what is hurtful will sink.
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