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A cheerful, intelligent face is the end of culture.
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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Hidden away in the inner nature of the real man is the law of his life, and someday he will discover it and consciously make use of it. He will heal himself, make himself happy and prosperous, and life in an entirely different world. For he will have discovered that life is from within and not from without.
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Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason.
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Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature.
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I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.
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Sorrow makes us all children again.
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The babe in arms is a channel through which the energies we call fate, love, and reason visibly stream.
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The simplest words,--we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire.
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If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
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The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.
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Men do not believe in the power of education. We do not think we can speak to divine sentiments in man, and we do not try. We renounce all high aims.
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In Haydn's oratorios, the notes present to the imagination not only motions, as, of the snake, the stag, and the elephant, but colors also as the green grass.
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Art is the need to create but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied hands, and of making cripples and monsters, such as all pictures and statues are. Nothing less than the creation of man and nature is its end.
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The terrors of the child are quite reasonable, and add to his loveliness for his utter ignorance and weakness, and his enchanting indignation on such a small basis of capital compel every bystander to take his part.
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We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.
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We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.
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Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.
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