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Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar’s dinner, from a hundred charities?
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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Nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere.
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Words are finite organs of the infinite mind. They cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth. They break, chop, and impoverish it.
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The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly.
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It is noticed, that the consideration of the great periods and spaces of astronomy induces a dignity of mind, and an indifferenceto death.
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Don't set out to teach theism from your natural history... You spoil both.
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The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.
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In imitation is a bit suicide.
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In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.
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Self reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.
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Do your work, but do your thing.
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I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world. With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations of nature.
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Good criticism is very rare and always precious.
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The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
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Cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.
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The world - this shadow of the soul, or other me - lies wide around. Its attractions are the keys which unlock my thoughts and make me acquainted with myself. I run eagerly into this resounding tumult... So much only of life as I know by experience... The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action past by, as a loss of power.
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The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down aspires and not despairs.
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