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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
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The height, the deity of man is to be self-sustained, to need no gift, no foreign force. Society is good when it does not violate me, but best when it is likest to solitude.
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How much better when the whole land is a garden, and the people have grown up in the bowers of a paradise.
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Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
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Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, of the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board.
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We put our love where we have put our labor.
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When the literary class betray a destitution of faith, it is not strange that society should be disheartened and sensualized by unbelief.
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The only thing that can grow is the thing you give energy to.
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Self-trust is the first secret of success.
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
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The common experience is, that the man fits himself as well as he can to the customary details of that work or trade he falls into, and tends it as a dog turns a spit. Then he is part of the machine he moves the man is lost.
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So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth whispers, 'I can.
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The intellect,-that is miraculous! Who has it, has the talisman: his skin and bones, though they were of the color of night, are transparent, and the everlasting stars shine through, with attractive beams.
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God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.
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Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply,- 'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.
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The virtue in most request is conformity.
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Every word was once a poem. Every new relation is a new word.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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You cannot institute, without peril of charlatanism.
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Jesus and Shakespeare are fragments of the soul, and by love I conquer and incorporate them in my own conscious domain. His virtue,--is not that mine? His wit,--if it cannot be made mine, it is not wit.
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Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.
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