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Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.

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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Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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He is great who confers the most benefits.
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Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?
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Great conversation ... requires an absolute running of two souls into one.
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The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.
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Human character evermore publishes itself. The most fugitive deed and word, the intimated purpose, express character.
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The life of man is a self-evolving circle.
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Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.
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We change whether we like it or not.
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Happy is the hearing man unhappy the speaking man.
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Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened.
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The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.
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The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.
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If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways, I keep and pass and turn again.
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If you take in a lie, you must take in all that belongs to it.
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Senators and presidents have climbed so high with pain enough, not because they think the place specially agreeable, but as an apology for real worth, and to vindicate their manhood in our eyes. This conspicuous chair is their compensation to themselves for being of a poor, cold, hard nature.
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Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation. Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living in the mouths of me.
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What king has he not taught state, as Talma taught Napoleon? What maiden has not found him finer than her delicacy? What lover has he not outloved? What sage has he not outseen? What gentleman has he not instructed in the rudeness of his behavior?
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Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?
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Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.
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Speak as you think, be what you are, pay your debts of all kinds. I prefer to be owned as sound and solvent, and my word as good as my bond, and to be what cannot be skipped, or dissipated, or undermined, to all the eclat in the universe. This reality is the foundation of friendship, religion, poetry, and art.
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