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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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The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.
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If you take in a lie, you must take in all that belongs to it.
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The poorest experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought
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Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it.
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Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
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Take the place and attitude to which you see your unquestionable right, and all men acquiesce.
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Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation.
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Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?
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Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown and distant star.
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Art is a jealous mistress.
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Of immortality, the soul, when well employed, is incurious. It is so well, that it is sure that it will be well. It asks no questions of the Supreme Power.
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Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed.
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The idealism of Berkeley is only a crude statement of the idealism of Jesus, and that again is a crude statement of the fact thatall nature is the rapid efflux of goodness executing and organizing itself.
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Our distrust is very expensive.
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Observe how every truth and every error, each a thought of someone's mind, clothes itself with societies, houses, cities, language, ceremonies, newspapers
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When a man becomes cultivated, he develops a new respect for who he is. This causes him to be ashamed of his past identification of himself and others according to things, i.e. property.
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Idealism sees the world in God. It beholds the whole circle of persons and things, of actions and events, of country and religion,not as painfully accumulated, atom after atom, act after act, in an aged creeping Past, but as one vast picture, which God paints on the instant eternity, for the contemplation of the soul.
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Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.
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There is properly no history, only biography.
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Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and that state of the mind can only be described by presenting that natural appearance as its picture.
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