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Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose.
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
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R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition, whilst all later teachings are tuitions.
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A child convinced against his will is of the same opinion still. The reward for a thing well done, is to have done it.
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The universal does not attract us until housed in an individual.
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In daily life what distinguishes the master is the using those materials he has, instead of looking about for what are more renowned, or what others have used well.
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Neither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair.
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The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
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If we live truly, we shall see truly. It is as easy for the strong man to be strong, as it is for the weak to be weak.
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In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.
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My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never sympathize with me you can never know how much of me such a young child can take away. A few weeks ago I accounted myself a very rich man, and now the poorest of all.
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Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it
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[W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out of their human estate.
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Each of us sees in others what we carry in our own hearts.
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In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made different? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.
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I like people who like Plato.
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Nature is too thin a screen the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere
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Let it suffice that in the light of these two facts, namely, that the mind is One, and that nature is its correlative, history isto be read and written.
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Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.
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Man is the dwarf of himself.
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It does not hurt weak eyes to look into beautiful eyes never so long.
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Gold and iron are good To buy iron and gold.
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