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War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's brains instead of their bowels.
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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For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency, because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.
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The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the mode of that spontaneity. God enters by a private door into every individual.
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The Oversoul is before Time, and Time, Father of all else, is one of his children.
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Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes what a satire this is on government.
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The poet needs a ground in popular tradition on which he may work, and which, again, may restrain his art within the due temperance. It holds him to the people, supplies a foundation for his edifice and, in furnishing so much work done to his hand, leaves him at leisure, and in full strength for the audacities of his imagination.
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The interminable forests should become graceful parks, for use and delight.
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Literature is eavesdropping.
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When it's dark enough men see stars.
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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
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Your work should be in praise of what you love.
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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
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If in the least particular, one could derange the order of nature, who would accept the gift of life?
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We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
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The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic importance of their contents to the constant mind of man.
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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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New York is a sucked orange. All conversation is at an end, when we have discharged ourselves of a dozen personalities, domestic or imported, which make up our American existence.
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Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life.
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The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry.
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[on Thoreau:] For not a particle of respect had he to the opinions of any man or body of men, but homage solely to truth itself.
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