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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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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.
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A strong person makes the law and custom null before his own will.
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How can he [today's writer] be honored, when he does not honor himself when he loses himself in the crowd when he is no longer the lawgiver, but the sycophant, ducking to the giddy opinion of a reckless public.
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Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in your speech, cries out that you are wrong and sets you right, hug him!
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The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eternal.
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The Church seems to totter to its fall, almost all life extinct. On this occasion, any complaisance would be criminal which told you, whose hope and commission it is to preach the faith of Christ, that the faith of Christ is preached.
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The eye is the first circle the horizon which it forms is the second and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.
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But genius is religious. It is a larger imbibing of the common heart.
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Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its being on every other creature.
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It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.
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Best masters for the young writer and speaker are the fault- finding brothers and sisters at home who will not spare him, but willpick and cavil, and tell the odious truth.
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It does not hurt weak eyes to look into beautiful eyes never so long.
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If it costs ten years, and ten to recover the general prosperity, the destruction of the South is worth so much.
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The powers of the Soul are commensurate with its needs.
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Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential. Without it, he is not yet man. Without it, thought can never ripen into truth.
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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.
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Rings and other jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself.
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Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
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