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You can take better care of your secret than another can.
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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Ability without honor has no value.
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You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. You send him to the Latin class, but much of histuition comes, on his way to school, from the shop- windows.
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Nature avenges herself speedily on the hard pedantry that would chain her waves. She is no literalist. Every thing must be taken genially, and we must be at the top of our condition, to understand any thing rightly.
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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
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Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is. The first time you hear it, it sounds rather as if copied out of some invisible tablet in the Eternal mind than as if arbitrarily composed by the poet.
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It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men.
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If the East loves infinity, the West delights in boundaries.
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In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it.
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I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose.
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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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All the world loves a lover.
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The human heart concerns us more than the poring into microscopes, and is larger than can be measured by the pompous figures of the astronomer.
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No hope so bright but is the beginning of its own fulfilment.
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There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding.
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Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a century, and dwarfs an age to an hour.
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It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement
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Accept your genius and say what you think.
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Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
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There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads among them take the best places.
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