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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
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An eminent teacher of girls said, the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe.
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Live well, learn plenty, laugh often, love much.
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I like my boy with his endless sweet soliloquies and iterations and his utter inability to conceive why I should not leave all my nonsense, business, and writing and come to tie up his toy horse, as if there was or could be any end to nature beyond his horse. And he is wiser than we when [he] threatens his whole threat I will not love you.
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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My doom and my strength is to be solitary.
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How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!
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'Well,' said Red Jacket [to someone complaining that he had not enough time], 'I suppose you have all there is.'
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If I am the devil's child, I will live then, by the devil.
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The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eternal.
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It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.
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If we walk in the woods, we must feed mosquitoes.
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What we commonly call man, the eating, drinking, planting, counting man, does not, as we know him, represent himself, but misrepresents himself. Him we do not respect, but the soul, whose organ he is, would he let it appear through his action, would make our knees bend.
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Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong
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No picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts. A man's power is hooped in by a necessity, which, by many experiments, he touches on every side, until he learns its arc.
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Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State.
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We must not tamper with the organic motion of the soul.
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Excite the soul, and the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear the world itself loses its solidity, nothing remains but the soul and the Divine Presence in which it lives.
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To clothe the fiery thought In simple words succeeds, For still the craft of genius is To mask a king in weeds.
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