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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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R. W. Emerson
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It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement
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The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet
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A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. A transcendent talent draws so largely on his forces as tolame him a defect pays him revenues on the other side.
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That man is idle who can do something better.
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Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.
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All men are poets at heart.
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An action is the perfection and publication of thought. A right action seems to fill the eye, and to be related to all nature.
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An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We live ruins amid ruins.
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The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both.
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In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present.
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Every word we speak is million-faced or convertible to an indefinite number of applications. If it were not so we could read no book. Your remark would only fit your case, not mine.
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Nature ever faithful is To such as trust her faithfulness.
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I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
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There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word.
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Many a reformer perishes in his removal of rubbish,--and that makes the offensiveness of the class. They are partial they are notequal to the work they pretend. They lose their way in the assault on the kingdom of darkness, they expend all their energy on some accidental evil, and lose their sanity and power of benefit.
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Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities.
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Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago, but it is put to better use.
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The forest is my loyal friend A Delphic shrine to me.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates. We read the quotation with his eyes, andfind a new and fervent sense as a passage from one of the poets, well recited, borrows new interest from the rendering. As the journals say, the italics are ours.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
