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The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect... it is the game of a rude and youthful people, and not the manly labour of a wise and spiritual nation.
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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Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened.
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Let ideas establish their legitimate sway again in society, let life be fair and poetic, and the scholars will gladly be lovers, citizens, and philanthropists.
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No matter how often defeated, you are born to victory.
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In the country, without any interference from the law, the agricultural life favors the permanence of families.
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We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
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I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places. For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?
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Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?
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The world exists, as I understand it, to teach the science of liberty.
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Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.
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Life is too short to waste.
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Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.
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People who wash much have a high mind about it, and talk down to those who wash little.
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I am Defeated all the time, yet to Victory I am born.
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Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.
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Every opinion reacts on him who utters it.
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The Times are the masquerade of the eternities trivial to the dull, tokens of noble and majestic agents to the wise the receptacle in which the Past leaves its history the quarry out of which the genius of today is building up the Future.
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