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Our statute is a currency which we stamp with our own portrait.
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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He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself.
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Solitary converse with nature for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, and October woods!
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If it costs ten years, and ten to recover the general prosperity, the destruction of the South is worth so much.
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Every wall is a door.
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If you cannot be free be as free as you can.
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There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we must obey.
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An orchard, good tillage, good grounds, seem a fixture, like a gold mine, or a river, to a citizen but to a large farmer, not much more fixed than the state of the crop.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The idealism of Berkeley is only a crude statement of the idealism of Jesus, and that again is a crude statement of the fact thatall nature is the rapid efflux of goodness executing and organizing itself.
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We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.
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But genius looks forward: the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates.
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Invention breeds invention.
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Those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man, than anything which he said.
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It is with a good book as it is with good company.
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All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.
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It is easy to see that what is best written or done by genius in the world, was no man's work but came by wide social labor, whena thousand wrought like one, sharing the same impulse.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side has its translation, through humanity, into the spiritual and necessary sphere, where it plays a part as indestructible as any other.
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No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
God has delegated himself to a million deputies.
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Poets should be law-givers that is, the boldest lyric inspiration should not chide and insult, but should announce and lead the civil code, and the day's work.
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