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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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Character wants room must not be crowded on by persons, nor be judged from glimpses got in the press of affairs, or on few occasions. It needs perspective, as a great building.
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I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.
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Only those books come down which deserve to last . All the gilt edges, vellum and morocco, all the presentation copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date.
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The terrible tabulation of the French statists brings every piece of whim and humor to be reducible also to exact numerical ratios. If one man in twenty thousand, or in thirty thousand, eats shoes, or marries his grandmother, then, in every twenty thousand, or thirty thousand, is found one man who eats shoes, or marries his grandmother.
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Earth endures Stars abide.
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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
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We know that madness belongs to love,--what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven.
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Words are alive. Cut them and they bleed.
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Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book.
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A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant.
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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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Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. We're so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside.
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We grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall Equal on Sunday in the pew, On Monday in the mall. For what avail the plough or sail, Or land, or life, if freedom fail?
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We live in succession, in division, in parts and particles. Meantime, within man, is the soul of the whole the wise silence the universal beauty to which every part and particle is equally related the eternal One.
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Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms.
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How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!
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In America and Europe, the nomadism is of trade and curiosity.
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What is it men love in Genius, but its infinite hope, which degrades all it has done? Genius counts all its miracles poor and short. Its own idea it never executed.
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Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential. Without it, he is not yet man. Without it, thought can never ripen into truth.
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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.
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