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I will not live out of me I will not see with others' eyes My good is good, my evil ill I would be free.
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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So use all that is called Fortune. Most men gamble with her, and gain all, and lose all, as her wheel rolls. But do thou leave as unlawful these winnings, and deal with Cause and Effect, the Chancellors of God.
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All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world.
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Conservatism is affluent and openhanded, but there is a cunning juggle in riches. I observe that they take somewhat for everythingthey give. I look bigger, but am less I have more clothes, but am nit so warm more armor, but less courage more books, but less wit.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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Test of the poet is knowledge of love, For Eros is older than Saturn or Jove Never was poet, of late or of yore, Who was not tremulous with love-lore.
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Bonaparte knew but one merit, and rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet, the good player.
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Great country, diminutive minds. America is formless, has no terrible and no beautiful condensation.
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Every man is as lazy as he dares to be.
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We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings. But how great a language to convey such pepper-corn informations!
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In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part.
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In the hands of the discoverer, medicine becomes a heroic art . . wherever life is dear he is a demigod.
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All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man has taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.
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Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.
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Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.
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