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Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man.

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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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word, a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem.
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Speech is better than silence silence is better than speech.
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As long as any man exists, there is some need of him.
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Tomorrow is a new day begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
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Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.
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All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.
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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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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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Women have a less accurate measure of time than men there is a clock in Adam, none in Eve.
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The true poem is the poet's mind.
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A man builds a fine house and now he has a master, and a task for life.
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Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized now for two hundred years.
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People are timid and apologetic they are no longer upright they dare not say I think, I am, but quote some saint or sage. They are ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose. These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones they are for what they are they exist with God to-day.
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Every man is wanted, and no man is wanted much.
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Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.
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Some men, at the approach of a dispute, neigh like horses.
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Explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatize or accept another's dogmatism.
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We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause.
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Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.
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Therefore is nature ever the ally of Religion: lends her all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment.
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