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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
Waldo Emerson
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How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!
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Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.
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Astrology is astronomy brought down to Earth and applied toward the affairs of men.
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People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.
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Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
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I take this evanescence and lubricity of all objects, which lets them slip through our fingers then when we clutch hardest, to be the most unhandsome part of our condition.
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An eminent teacher of girls said, the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The scholar may lose himself in schools, in words, and become a pedant but when he comprehends his duties, he above all men is arealist, and converses with things.
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To be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false,--this is the mark and character of intelligence.
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We shun the rugged battle of fate where strength is born.
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It is better to suffer injustice than to do it.
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The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not.
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Every man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market cart into a chariot of the sun.
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There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest, and which our ordinary education oftenlabors to silence and obstruct.
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Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet
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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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Away with this hurrah of masses, and let us have the considerate vote of single men.
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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Learn from it... tomorrow is a new day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
But speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance. Speak the truth, and all things alive orbrute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let us unlearn our wisdom of the world. Let us lie low in the Lord's power, and learn that truth alone makes rich and great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
