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Looking at God instantly reduces our disposition to dissent from our brother.
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
Waldo Emerson
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We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul.
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A work of art is an abstract or epitome of the world. It is the result or expression of nature, in miniature. For, although the works of nature are innumerable and all different, the result or the expression of them all is similar and single.
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We pray to be conventional. But the wary Heaven takes care you shall not be, if there is anything good in you. Dante was very badcompany, and was never invited to dinner.
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The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time.
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Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.
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Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know
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We resent all criticism which denies us anything that lies in our line of advance.
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A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
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Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.
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The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses.
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A great man will find a great subject, or which is the same thing, make any subject great.
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Solitude is naught and society is naught. Alternate them and the good of each is seen.
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Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
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We are disgusted by gossip yet it is of importance to keep the angels in their proprieties.
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The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.
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A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price.
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The poorest experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought
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The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance and it straightens itself to the average tendency.
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Far or forgot to me is near Shadow and sunlight are the same The vanished gods to me appear And one to me are shame and fame.They reckon ill who leave me out When me they fly, I am the wings I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.
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