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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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Philosopher
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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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But hospitality must be for service, and not for show, or it pulls down the host. The brave soul rates itself too high to value itself by the splendor of its table and draperies. It gives what it hath, and all it hath, but its own majesty can lend a better grace to bannocks and fair water than belong to city feasts.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.
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Commerce is of trivial import love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.
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In daily life what distinguishes the master is the using those materials he has, instead of looking about for what are more renowned, or what others have used well.
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Say, what other metre is it Than the meeting of the eyes? Nature poureth into nature Through the channels of that feature Riding on the ray of sight, Fleeter far than whirlwinds go, Or for service, or delight, Hearts to hearts their meaning show.
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Work and thou canst escape the reward whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.
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I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.
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I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victimized in being brought hither?--or, prior to that, answer me this, Are you victimizable?
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There comes a time in each man's education in which he comes to the conclusion that envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide, and society in in conspiracy against each one of its members.
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The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs through himself and all things.
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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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When a man does not write his poetry, it escapes by other vents through him.
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We cannot let our angels go we do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in.
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If you cannot be free be as free as you can.
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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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Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
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Truth is too simple for us: we do not like those who unmask our illusions.
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It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.
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Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used.
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The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite.
Ralph Waldo Emerson