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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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Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate debt, which consumes so much time, which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base, is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone, and is needed most by those who suffer from it most.
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Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
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Do that which you fear to do, and the fear will die.
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You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.
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There is properly no history, only biography.
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Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.
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Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
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Some men, at the approach of a dispute, neigh like horses.
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I will not live out of me I will not see with others' eyes My good is good, my evil ill I would be free.
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There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding.
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Chiefly the sea-shore has been the point of departure to knowledge, as to commerce. The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
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A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us and not done by us.
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I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victimized in being brought hither?--or, prior to that, answer me this, Are you victimizable?
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One must be an inventor to read well.
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The French woman says, 'I am a woman and a Parisienne, and nothing foreign to me appears altogether human.'
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Life is unnecessarily long. Moments of insight, of fine personal relation, a smile, a glance,--what ample borrowers of eternity they are!
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My life is superficial, takes no root in the deep world I ask, When shall I die, and be relieved of the responsibility of seeinga Universe which I do not use? I wish to exchange this flash-of-lightning faith for continuous daylight, this fever-glow for a benign climate.
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Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.
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Sentimentalists ... adopt whatever merit is in good repute, and almost make it hateful with their praise. The warmer their expressions, the colder we feel.... Cure the drunkard, heal the insane, mollify the homicide, civilize the Pawnee, but what lessons can be devised for the debauchee of sentiment?
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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
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