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I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.
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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The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength. You say there is no religion now. 'Tis like saying in rainy weather, There is no sun, when at that moment we are witnessing one of its superlative effects.
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My angel,-his name is Freedom,- Choose him to be your king He shall cut pathways east and west, And fend you with his wing.
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If we live truly, we shall see truly. It is as easy for the strong man to be strong, as it is for the weak to be weak.
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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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We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.
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The evolution of a highly destined society must be moral it must run in the grooves of the celestial wheels.
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In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.
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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
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But I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle, I leave the village politics and personalities, yes, and the world of villages and personalities behind, and pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight, too bright almost for spotted man to enter without novitiate and probation.
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
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Behind us, as we go, all things assume pleasing forms, as clouds do far off. Not only things familiar and stale, but even the tragic and terrible, are comely, as they take their place in the pictures of memory.
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A weed is a plant whose virtue is not yet known.
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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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For he that feeds men serveth few He serves all who dares be true.
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We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.
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We live ruins amid ruins.
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We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
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Find the journey's end in every step.
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Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.
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Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
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