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The eye is the painter and the ear the singer.
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
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I believe in Eternity. I can find Greece, Palestine, Italy, Spain, and the Islands, - the Genius and creative Principle of each and of all eras, in my own mind.
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The Soul rules over matter. Matter may pass away like a mote in the sunbeam, may be absorbed into the immensity of God, as a mistis absorbed into the heat of the Sun--but the soul is the kingdom of God, the abode of love, of truth, of virtue.
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When a man does not write his poetry, it escapes by other vents through him.
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Thought makes everything fit for use.
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The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
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Marriage (in what is called the spiritual world) is impossible, because of the inequality between every subject and every object.
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Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function living is the functionary.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The virtue you would like to have, assume it is already yours, appropriate it, enter into the part and live the character just as the great actor is absorbed in... the part he plays.
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The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine. The simplicity of nature is not that which may be easily read but is inexhaustible. The last analysis can no wise be made.
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I can believe a miracle because I can raise my own arm. I can believe a miracle because I can remember. I can believe it because I can speak and be understood by you.
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As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action.
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The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.
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Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.
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He only is a well-made man who has a good determination.
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The have a good friend is one of the greatest delights of life.
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Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The simplest words,--we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire.
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Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.
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Now that is the wisdom of a man, in every instance of his labor, to hitch his wagon to a star, and see his chore done by the gods themselves. That is the way we are strong, by borrowing the might of the elements. The forces of steam, gravity, galvanism, light, magnets, wind, fire, serve us day by day and cost us nothing.
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