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That man is idle who can do something better.
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 work of art is an abstract or epitome of the world. It is the result or expression of nature, in miniature. For, although the works of nature are innumerable and all different, the result or the expression of them all is similar and single.
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There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we must obey.
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I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.
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Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
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There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.
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Never read any book that is not a year old.
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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
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I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me.
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He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation but he shuts the door of truth.
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When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.
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As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
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It is curious that Christianity, which is idealism, is sturdily defended by the brokers, and steadily attacked by the idealists.
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The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.
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Power resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state.
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The dogma of the mystic offices of Christ being dropped, and he standing on his genius as a moral teacher, 'tis impossible to maintain the old emphasis of his personality and it recedes, as all persons must, before the sublimity of the moral laws.
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Our prayers are prophets.
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But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on our population where all the millions read and write ? It is the joy of nations that man can communicate all his thoughts, discoveries and virtues to records that may last for centuries.
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In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.
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People who know how to act are never preachers.
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Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one Nothing is fair or good alone.
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