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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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Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance.
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
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Life is a series of surprises.
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The remedy for all blunders, the cure of blindness, the cure of crime, is love.
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In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, with hope & love, & go as brave as the zodiack. In age we put out another sort of perspiration gout, fever, rheumatism, caprice, doubt, fretting, and avarice.
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By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.
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At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles.
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Those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man, than anything which he said.
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Men are what their mothers made them. You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckabuck why it does not make cashmere as to expect poetry from this engineer or a chemical discovery from that jobber.
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In science we have to consider two things: power and circumstance.
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What is there of the divine in a load of brick? What ... in a barber shop? ... Much. All.
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Skepticism? Yes, but a saint is a skeptic once in twenty-four hours.
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There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works.
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America means opportunity, freedom, power.
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We judge of a man's wisdom by his hope, knowing that the inexhaustibleness of nature is an immortal youth.
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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.
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The world is the ring of his spells, And the play of his miracles.
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But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on our population where all the millions read and write ? It is the joy of nations that man can communicate all his thoughts, discoveries and virtues to records that may last for centuries.
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Luckily for us, now that steam has narrowed the Atlantic to a strait, the nervous, rocky West is intruding a new and continental element into the national mind, as we shall yet have an American genius.
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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.
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