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Only poetry inspires poetry.

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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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
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Chiefly the sea-shore has been the point of departure to knowledge, as to commerce. The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
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Genius always finds itself a century too early.
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When we see a special reformer we feel like asking him, What right have you, sir, to your own virtue? Is virtue piecemeal?
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But to most of us society shows not its face and eye, but its side and back. To stand in true relations with men in a false age isworth a fit of insanity, is it not?
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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.
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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
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Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Subjectiveness,--these are the threads on the loom of time, these are the lords of life.
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Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons, where no friendship can be. Our impatience betrays us into rash and foolish alliances which no God attends.
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We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
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The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.
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The charm of fine manners is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of these arts.
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Everything in our world, even a drop of dew, is a microcosm of the universe.
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Want is a growing giant whom the coat of have was never large enough to cover.
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Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.
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A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us and not done by us.
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The house is a castle which the King cannot enter.
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Where the banana grows man is sensual and cruel.
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The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.
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Every word we speak is million-faced or convertible to an indefinite number of applications. If it were not so we could read no book. Your remark would only fit your case, not mine.
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