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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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The time will come when the evil forms we have known can no more be organized. Man's culture can spare nothing, wants all material. He is to convert all impediments into instruments, all enemies into power.
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Nobody is glad in the gladness of another, and our system is one of war, of an injurious superiority. Every child of the Saxon race is educated to wish to be first. It is our system and a man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies, and hatreds of his competitors.
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Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
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Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.
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Duty grows everywhere--like children, like grass.
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Human society is made up of partialities. Each citizen has an interest and a view of his own, which, if followed out to the extreme, would leave no room for any other citizen.
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He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.
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The age of puberty is a crisis in the age of man worth studying. It is the passage from the unconscious to the conscious from thesleep of passions to their rage.
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The household is a school of power. There, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life.
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There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.
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Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.
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In the hands of the discoverer, medicine becomes a heroic art . . wherever life is dear he is a demigod.
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Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.
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I am not so foolish as to declaim against forms. Forms are as essential as bodies but to exalt particular forms, to adhere to oneform a moment after it is outgrown, is unreasonable, and it is alien to the spirit of Christ.
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Whatever we think and say is wonderfully better for our spirits and trust in another mouth.
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In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present estate.
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All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.
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A beautiful woman is a practical poet.
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Let us take our bloated nothingness out of the path of the divine circuits.
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All the great ages have been ages of belief.
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