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Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.
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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R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.
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A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his uncle. They accuse his silence with as much reason as they would blame the insignificance of a dial in the shade. In the sun it will mark the hour. Among those who enjoy his thought, he will regain his tongue.
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Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.
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Slavery it is that makes slavery freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.
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A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
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The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion.
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The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out.
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We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited.
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By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence, and giving to every one its own name and not another's, thereby rejoicing the intellect, which delights in detachment or boundary.
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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
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A Judge may be a farmer but he is not to geld his own pigs.
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The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty is solved by redemption of the soul.
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There is a crack in everything God has made
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As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action.
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The Roman rule was, to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing. The old English rule was, All summer in the field, and all winter in the study. And it seems as if a man should learn to plant, or to fish, or to hunt, that he might secure his subsistence at all events, and not be painful to his friends and fellow men.
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