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Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.

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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Philosopher
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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life.
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Knowledge exists to be imparted.
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The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.
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The wings of Time are black and white, Pied with morning and with night.
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Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape, and bodily exercise on the mind.
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Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.
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Who gave thee, O Beauty, The keys of this breast,-- Too credulous lover Of blest and unblest? Say, when in lapsed ages Thee knew I of old? Or what was the service For which I was sold?
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How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!
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The whole of what we know is a system of compensation. Every defect in one manner is made up in another. Every suffering is rewarded every sacrifice is made up every debt is paid.
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
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We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves.
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God has delegated himself to a million deputies.
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Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.
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I think I have done well, if I have acquired a new word from a good author and my business with him is to find my own, though itwere only to melt him down into an epithet or an image for daily use.
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Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State.
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In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present.
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The motive of science was the extension of man, on all sides, into Nature, till his hands should touch the stars, his eyes see through the earth, his ears understand the language of beast and bird, and the sense of the wind and, through his sympathy, heaven and earth should talk with him. But that is not our science.
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To educate the wise man, the State exists and with the appearance of the wise man, the State expires. The appearance of charactermakes the state unnecessary. The wise man is the State.
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Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none.
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Every man is an infinitely repelling orb, and holds his individual being on that condition.
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