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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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Oxford is a little aristocracy in itself, numerous and dignified enough to rank with other estates in the realm and where fame and secular promotion are to be had for study, and in a direction which has the unanimous respect of all cultivated nations.
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I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make that man another you. One's enough.
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America means opportunity, freedom, power.
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The regular course of studies, the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin School.
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No facts are to me sacred none are profane I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.
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Great country, diminutive minds. America is formless, has no terrible and no beautiful condensation.
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When a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and the purity of its heart.
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Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens.
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Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares
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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
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A little integrity is better than any career.
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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
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All things are moral. That soul, which within us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law. We feel its inspiration out there in history we can see its fatal strength.
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Live well, learn plenty, laugh often, love much.
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You must let go of a thing for a new one to come to you.
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Nature ever faithful is To such as trust her faithfulness.
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Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the language put together into a most significant and universal sense. I wish to learn this language - not that I may know a new grammar, but that I may read the great book which is written in that tongue.
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It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
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You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.
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Human character evermore publishes itself. The most fugitive deed and word, the intimated purpose, express character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson