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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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Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized now for two hundred years.
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Thou art to me a delicious torment.
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The wise skeptic does not teach doubt but how] to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting.
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Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.
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Every word was once a poem.
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Thought makes everything fit for use.
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The craft with which the world is made runs also into the mind and character of men. No man is quite sane each has a vein of folly in his composition, a slight determination of blood to the head, to make sure of holding him hard to some one point which Nature has taken to heart.
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The universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest.
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All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature.
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Mankind divides itself into two classes,--benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast the first a handful.
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The language of the street is always strong.
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He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests he gives an independent, genuine verdict. You must court him: he does not court you. But the man is, as it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness.
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You cannot institute, without peril of charlatanism.
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God will not make himself manifest to cowards
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Your actions speak so loud, I can't hear what you say.
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I do not know what arguments mean in reference to any expression of a thought. I delight in telling what I think but if you ask me how I dare say so, or why it is so, I am the most helpless of men.
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Stand guard at the portal of your mind.
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For, the advantages which fashion values, are plants which thrive in very confined localities, in a few streets, namely. Out of this precinct, they go for nothing are of no use in the farm, in the forest, in the market, in war, in the nuptial society, in the literary or scientific circle, at sea, in friendship, in the heaven of thought or virtue.
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I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-borne treasures home.
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Without the great arts which speak to the sense of beauty, a man seems to me a poor, naked, shivering creature. These are his becoming draperies, which warm and adorn him.
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