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The finest people marry the two sexes in their own person.
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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The world is his who can see through its pretension.
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The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails.
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Beauty brings its own fancy price, for all that a man hath will he give for his love.
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
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Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other.
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Let there be worse cotton and better men.
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A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
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In every landscape, the point of astonishment is the meeting of the sky and the earth, and that is seen from the first hillock aswell as from the top of the Alleghanies. The stars at night stoop down over the brownest, homeliest common, with all the spiritual magnificence which they shed on the Campagna, or on the marble deserts of Egypt.
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All men are poets at heart.
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We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings. But how great a language to convey such pepper-corn informations!
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We animate what we can see, and we see only what we animate.
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They think him the best dressed man, whose dress is so fit for his use that you cannot notice or remember to describe it.
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A great man will find a great subject, or which is the same thing, make any subject great.
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Test of the poet is knowledge of love, For Eros is older than Saturn or Jove Never was poet, of late or of yore, Who was not tremulous with love-lore.
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We grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall Equal on Sunday in the pew, On Monday in the mall. For what avail the plough or sail, Or land, or life, if freedom fail?
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Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.
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Society has really no graver interest than the well-being of the literary class.
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