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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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The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.
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Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
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The soul lets no man go without some visitations and holy-days of a diviner presence.
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I am the owner of the sphere, Of the seven stars and the solar year, of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain, Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakespeare's strain.
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Spurious prudence, making the senses final, is the god of sots and cowards, and is the subject of all comedy. It is nature's joke, and therefore literature's. True prudence limits this sensualism by admitting the knowledge of an internal and real world.
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We pass for what we are.
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I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.
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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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Every stoic was a stoic but in Christendom where is the Christian?
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Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.
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The reverence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous sentiment. Their merit was not to reverence the old, but to honor the present moment and we falsely make them excuses of the very habit which they hated and defied.
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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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The secret is the answer to all that has been, all that is, and all that will ever be.
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What is it men love in Genius, but its infinite hope, which degrades all it has done? Genius counts all its miracles poor and short. Its own idea it never executed.
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The inmost in due time becomes the outmost.
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My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.
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Knowledge, Virtue, Power are the victories of man over his necessities, his march to the dominion of the world.
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Beside all the moral benefit which we may expect from the farmer's profession, when a man enters it considerately, this promised the conquering of the soil, plenty, and beyond this, the adorning of the country with every advantage and ornament which labor, ingenuity, and affection for a man's home, could suggest.
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The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails.
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The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.
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