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Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity.
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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Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward in talent from without inward.
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In America and Europe, the nomadism is of trade and curiosity.
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It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.
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What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?
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We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.
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Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again.
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A nation never falls but by suicide.
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A little integrity is better than any career.
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The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.
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But to most of us society shows not its face and eye, but its side and back. To stand in true relations with men in a false age isworth a fit of insanity, is it not?
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Earth endures Stars abide.
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I take this evanescence and lubricity of all objects, which lets them slip through our fingers then when we clutch hardest, to be the most unhandsome part of our condition.
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The life of man is a self-evolving circle.
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Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.
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We do not make a world of our own, but fall into institutions already made, and have to accommodate ourselves to them to be useful at all.
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The best nations are those most widely related and navigation, as effecting a world-wide mixture, is the most potent advancer ofnations.
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Every great man is unique.
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When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.
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Invention breeds invention.
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Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.
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