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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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Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed.
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Many a profound genius, I suppose, who fills the world with fame of his exploding renowned errors, is yet everyday posed and baffled by trivial questions at his own supper table.
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How can we speak of the action of the mind under any divisions, as of its knowledge, of its ethics, of its works, and so forth, since it melts will into perception, knowledge into act? Each becomes the other. Itself alone is.
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To eat bread is one thing to love the precepts of Christ and resolve to obey them is quite another.
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No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
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A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his uncle. They accuse his silence with as much reason as they would blame the insignificance of a dial in the shade. In the sun it will mark the hour. Among those who enjoy his thought, he will regain his tongue.
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Governments have their origin in the moral identity of men.
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Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn nature's oldest force is as good as new.
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The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments.
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The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.
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Oxford is a little aristocracy in itself, numerous and dignified enough to rank with other estates in the realm and where fame and secular promotion are to be had for study, and in a direction which has the unanimous respect of all cultivated nations.
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Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
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A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant.
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We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.
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The universal does not attract us until housed in an individual.
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Fear always springs from ignorance.
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Astrology is astronomy brought down to Earth and applied toward the affairs of men.
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Every stoic was a stoic but in Christendom where is the Christian?
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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.
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We may be partial, but Fate is not.
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