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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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A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment and even obstacles and opposition will but make us like the fabled specter-ships, which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.
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The mind will quote whether the tongue does or not.
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Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises. 'Tis the vulgar great who come dizened with gold and jewels. Real kings hide away their crowns in their wardrobes, and affect a plain and poor exterior.
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A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.
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I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
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The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
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The mark of a man of the world is absence of pretension.
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Many a profound genius, I suppose, who fills the world with fame of his exploding renowned errors, is yet everyday posed and baffled by trivial questions at his own supper table.
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A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
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The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time.
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Happy is the house that shelters a friend.
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A man is the prisoner of his power. A topical memory makes him an almanac a talent for debate, disputant skill to get money makes him a miser, that is, a beggar. Culture reduces these inflammations by invoking the aid of other powers against the dominant talent, and by appealing to the rank of powers. It watches success.
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In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made different? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.
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The people are to be taken in very small doses.
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Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go, and is only right admirable when to all its beauty and speed a subserviency to the will, like that of walking, is added.
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He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
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it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower.
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I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.
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The best political economy is the care and culture of men for, in these crises, all are ruined except such as are proper individuals, capable of thought, and of new choice and the application of their talent to new labor.
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