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Every time you wink the stars move.
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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Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great.
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If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience.
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Let us learn the meaning of economy. Economy is a high human office,--a sacrament when its aim is grand, when it is the prudence of simple tastes, when it is practised for freedom or for love or devotion.
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I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. How far off, how cool, how chaste the persons look,begirt each one with a precinct or sanctuary!
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Our statute is a currency which we stamp with our own portrait.
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The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
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Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.
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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.
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Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
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Books are the best of things if well used if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.
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Knowledge is the antidote to fear,- Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids.
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We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was accomplished, and much was begun in us.
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Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
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One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. He only is right who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded by worry, fret and anxiety. Finish every day, and be done with it. You have done what you could.
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To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men - that is genius... Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist... What I must do, is all that concerns me not what the people think... Nothing can bring you peace but yourself nothing, but the triumph of principles.
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Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.
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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 law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite.
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