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Any work looks wonderful to me except the one which I can do.

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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The desire of gold is not for gold. It is not the love of much wheat, and wool and household stuff. It is the means of freedom and benefit.
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Though many painters and sculptors talk glibly of going in for photography, you will find that very few of them can ever make a picture by photography they lack the science, technical knowledge, and above all the practice. Most people think they can play tennis, shoot, write novels, and photograph as well as any other person - until they try
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To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.
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The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man.
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I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.
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Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
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As soon as there is life there is danger.
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What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are.
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I have just been conversing with one man, to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest sentiments, as well as a knot of friends, or a pair of lovers.
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I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.
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The good judge is not he who does hair-splitting justice to every allegation, but who, aiming at substantial justice, rules something intelligible of the guidance of suitors.
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When the spirit is not master of the world, then it is its dupe.
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The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.
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The only prudence in life is concentration.
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The great will not condescend to take anything seriously.
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The highest end of government is the culture of men.
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No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.
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Honor and fortune exist for him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great, always feels himself in the presence of high causes.
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That which builds is better than that which is built.
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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
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