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The picture waits for my verdict it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.
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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Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.
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I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast.
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Every man's task [his 'great dream' and impassioned life-goal] is his life preserver.
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Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
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The goitre of egotism is so frequent among notable persons, that we must infer some strong necessity in nature which it subservessuch as we see in the sexual attraction.
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A home kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is with a good book as it is with good company.
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I do not speak with any fondness but the language of coolest history, when I say that Boston commands attention as the town whichwas appointed in the destiny of nations to lead the civilization of North America.
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The gates of thought, - how slow and late they discover themselves! Yet when they appear, we see that they were always there, always open.
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Commerce is of trivial import love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.
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Why should all virtue work in one and the same way? Why should all give dollars? It is very inconvenient to us country folk, and we do not think any good will come of it. We have not dollars merchants have let them give them. Farmers will give corn poets will sing women will sew laborers will lend a hand the children will bring flowers.
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The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy.
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Be brave enough to do the loving thing.
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Isolation must precede true society.
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The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.
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Youth is everywhere in place.
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The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
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Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.
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An action is the perfection and publication of thought.
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