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The hero is suffered to be himself.
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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Every body we know surrounds himself with a fine house, fine books, conservatory, gardens, equipage, and all manner of toys, as screens to interpose between himself and his guest. Does it not seem as if man was of a very sly, elusive nature, and dreaded nothing so much as a full rencontre front to front with his fellow?
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A nation never falls but by suicide.
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Manners have been somewhat cynically defined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance. Fashion is shrewd to detect those who do not belong to her train, and seldom wastes her attentions. Society is very swift in its instincts, and if you do not belong to it, resists and sneers at you, or quietly drops you.
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A cheerful, intelligent face is the end of culture.
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Every word was once a poem. Every new relation is a new word.
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Society does not love its unmaskers.
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The beautiful laws of time and space, once dislocated by our inaptitude, are holes and dens. If the hive be disturbed by rash and stupid hands, instead of honey, it will yield us bees.
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Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins
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All that can be done for you is nothing to what you can do for yourself.
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It happens to us once or twice in a lifetime to be drunk with some book which probably has some extraordinary relative power to intoxicate us and none other and having exhausted that cup of enchantment we go groping in libraries all our years afterwards in the hope of being in Paradise again.
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Tragedy is in the eye of the observer, and not in the heart of the sufferer.
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Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old.
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The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
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The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.
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We judge of a man's wisdom by his hope, knowing that the inexhaustibleness of nature is an immortal youth.
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Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.
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He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
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Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest when they are sick or aged. In the morning, or when their intellect or their conscience has been aroused, when they hear music, or when they read poetry, they are radicals.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.
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