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Our health is our sound relation to external objects our sympathy with external being.
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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No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton, Laplace, are not new men, or a new kind of men, but that Thales, Anaximenes, Hipparchus, Empodocles, Aristorchus, Pythagorus, Oenipodes, had anticipated them.
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We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.
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In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.
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Nature hates calculators.
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Do that which you fear to do, and the fear will die.
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The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity.
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The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side has its translation, through humanity, into the spiritual and necessary sphere, where it plays a part as indestructible as any other.
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Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book.
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Nothing can be more delicate without being fantastical, nothing more firm and based in nature and sentiment, than the courtship and mutual carriage of the sexes.
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I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.
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It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience, and makes the world he lives in.
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We acquire the strength we have overcome.
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For the world was built in order around the atoms march in tune Rhyme the pipe, and Time the warder, The sun obeys them, and the moon.
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant.
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Shakspeare is the only biographer of Shakspeare and even he can tell nothing, except to the Shakspeare in us that is, to our most apprehensive and sympathetic hour.
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Find the journey's end in every step.
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The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses.
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We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.
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Away with this hurrah of masses, and let us have the considerate vote of single men.
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