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Genius has no taste for weaving sand.
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
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I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity. All men, all things, the state, the church, yea the friends of the heart are phantasms and unreal beside the sanctuary of the heart. With so much awe, with so much fear, let it be respected.
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Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.
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He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand.
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Everything that is popular, it has been said, deserves the attention of philosophers: and this is for the obvious reason, that although it may not be of any worth in itself, yet it characterizes the people.
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So each man, like each plant, has his parasites. A strong, astringent, bilious nature has more truculent enemies than the slugs and moths that fret my leaves. Such a one has curculios, borers, knife-worms a swindler ate him first, then a client, then a quack, then smooth, plausible gentlemen, bitter and selfish as Moloch.
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We take care of our health we lay up money we make our roof tight, and our clothing sufficient but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all, -friends?
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Daughter of heaven and earth, coy Spring, With sudden passion languishing, Teaching barren moors to smile, Painting pictures mile on mile, Holds a cup of cowslip wreaths Whence a smokeless incense breathes.
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Let a man behave in his own house as a guest.
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God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings, and, with each, therefore, a new idea, new inventions, and new applications.
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Of the Shaker society, it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country, that they always sent the devil to market.
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The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do.
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
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It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.
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There is no man of Nature's worth In the circle of the earth.
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The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.
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Be a gift and a benediction.
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If thought makes free, so does the moral sentiment. The mixtures of spiritual chemistry refuse to be analyzed.
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The best picture makes us say, I am a painter also.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
[D]ivine Providence... keeps the universe open in every direction to the soul.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.
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