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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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Underneath the inharmonious and trivial particulars, is a musical perfection, the Ideal journeying always with us, the heaven without rent or seam.
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I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.
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The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency.
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Those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man, than anything which he said.
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All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effiminated by position of nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.
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There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest, and which our ordinary education oftenlabors to silence and obstruct.
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Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.
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The population of the world is a conditional population these are not the best, but the best that could live in the existing state of soils, gases, animals, and morals: the best that could yet live there shall be a better, please God.
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An expense of ends to means is fateMorganization tyrannizing over character. The menagerie, or forms and powers of the spine, is a book of fate: the bill of the bird, the skull of the snake, determines tyrannically its limits.
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The religion which is to guide and fulfill the present and coming ages, whatever else it be, must be intellectual. The scientific mind must have a faith which is science.
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No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
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Thought dissolves the material universe by carrying the mind up into a sphere where all is plastic.
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A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree.
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Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. In the divided or social state these functions are parcelled out to individuals, each of whom aims to do his stint of the joint work, whilst each other performs his.
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When a man does not write his poetry, it escapes by other vents through him.
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Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance.
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A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us
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Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.
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God enters by a private door into every individual.
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No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.
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