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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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Essayist
Philosopher
Poet
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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.
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We do not make a world of our own, but fall into institutions already made, and have to accommodate ourselves to them to be useful at all.
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Women have a less accurate measure of time than men there is a clock in Adam, none in Eve.
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When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.
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People only see what they are prepared to see. If you look for what is good and what you can be grateful for you will find it everywhere.
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O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.
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Poverty demoralizes. A man in debt is so far a slave and Wall-street thinks it easy for a millionaire to be a man of his word, aman of honor, but, that, in failing circumstances, no man can be relied on to keep his integrity.
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All men are poets at heart.
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We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men aboutus are dupes. But life is a sincerity.
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Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.
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Pride eradicates all vices but itself.
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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.
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We change whether we like it or not.
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I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.
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The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy. It is as real a loss that others should be low, as that we should be low for we musthave a society.
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The action of the soul is oftener in that which is felt and left unsaid than in that which is said in any conversation. It broods over every society, and men unconsciously seek for it in each other.
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The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eternal.
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The squirrel hoards nuts and the bee gathers honey, without knowing what they do, and they are thus provided for without selfishness or disgrace.
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Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.
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