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Let a man behave in his own house as a guest.
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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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
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Life is not intellectual or critical, but sturdy. Its chief good is for well-mixed people who can enjoy what they find, without question.
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It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.
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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.
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Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
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There is no great and no small To the Soul that maketh all.
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Away with this hurrah of masses, and let us have the considerate vote of single men.
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There are not in the world at any one time more than a dozen persons who read and understand Plato:-never enough to pay for an edition of his works yet to every generation these come duly down, for the sake of those few persons, as if God brought them written in his hand.
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Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for me. Therefore the poet brings his poem the shepherd, his lamb the farmer, corn the miner, a stone the painter, his picture the girl, a handkerchief of her own sewing.
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I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to go to church no more.
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O friend, never strike sail to a fear!
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The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.
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If in the least particular, one could derange the order of nature, who would accept the gift of life?
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But we need not fear that we can lose any thing by the progress of the soul. The soul may be trusted to the end.
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We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.
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No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.
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There is always safety in valor.
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An actually existing fly is more important than a possibly existing angel.
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Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life. People only see what they are prepared to see.
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An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.
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