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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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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
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Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . .
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The only thing that can grow is the thing you give energy to.
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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Look out! Behind you!
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Knowledge is the only elegance.
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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.
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We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of dolls, drums and horses, withdrawing their eyes from the plain face and... Nature, the sun and moon, the animals, the water and stones, which should be their toys.
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A man must keep an eye on his servants, if he would not have them rule him.
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Tis curious that we only believe as deeply as we live.
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When good is near you, when you have life in yourself, it is not by any known or accustomed way you shall not discern the foot-prints of any other you shall not see the face of man you shall not hear any name the way, the thought, the good, shall be wholly strange and new. It shall exclude example and experience.
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The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine. The simplicity of nature is not that which may be easily read but is inexhaustible. The last analysis can no wise be made.
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I am not so foolish as to declaim against forms. Forms are as essential as bodies but to exalt particular forms, to adhere to oneform a moment after it is outgrown, is unreasonable, and it is alien to the spirit of Christ.
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Do what we can, summer will have its flies.
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Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All
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Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.
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If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more.
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No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.
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The genius of life is friendly to the noble, and, in the dark, brings them friends from far.
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