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I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.
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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Always the seer is a sayer. Somehow his dream is told somehow he publishes it with solemn joy: sometimes with pencil on canvas, sometimes with chisel on stone, sometimes in towers and aisles of granite, his soul's worship is builded sometimes in anthems of indefinite music, but clearest and most permanent, in words.
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An action is the perfection and publication of thought. A right action seems to fill the eye, and to be related to all nature.
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In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.
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The river knows the way to the sea: Without a pilot it runs and falls, Blessing all lands with its charity.
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Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
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We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected.
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No facts are to me sacred none are profane I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.
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People who know how to act are never preachers.
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Ethics and religion differ herein that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God Ethics does not.
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Man is the will, and woman the sentiment. In this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder, and Sentiment the sail when woman affects to steer, the rudder is only a masked sail.
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