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Nature, as we know her, is no saint.... She comes eating and drinking and sinning.
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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A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.
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A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree.
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People who wash much have a high mind about it, and talk down to those who wash little.
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Women have a less accurate measure of time than men there is a clock in Adam, none in Eve.
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The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.
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Natural religion supplies still all the facts which are disguised under the dogma of popular creeds. The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals.
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Any relation to the land, the habit of tilling it, or mining it, or even hunting on it, generates the feeling of patriotism. He who keeps shop on it, or he who merely uses it as a support to his desk and ledger, or to his manufactory, values it less.
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A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude.
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Let it suffice that in the light of these two facts, namely, that the mind is One, and that nature is its correlative, history isto be read and written.
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You must treat the days respectfully, you must be a day yourself, and not interrogate it like a college professor.
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How much of human life is lost in waiting.
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Beauty through my senses stole I yielded myself to the perfect whole.
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The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct.
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It is an esoteric doctrine of society, that a little wickedness is good to make muscle as if conscience were not good for hands and legs.
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Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot know.
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Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
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How can we speak of the action of the mind under any divisions, as of its knowledge, of its ethics, of its works, and so forth, since it melts will into perception, knowledge into act? Each becomes the other. Itself alone is.
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It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day.
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