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All men are poets at heart.
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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Who does not sometimes envy the good and the brave, who are no more to suffer from the tumults of the natural world, and await with curious complacency the speedy term of his own conversation with finite nature?
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For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing.
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I think no virtue goes with size.
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My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation.
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There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.
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Speak the affirmative emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject.
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Our strength grows out of our weakness.
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Women have a less accurate measure of time than men there is a clock in Adam, none in Eve.
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And so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance.
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I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success. One adores public opinion, the other, private opinion one, fame, the other, desert one, feats, the other, humility one, lucre, the other, love one, monopoly, and the other, hospitality of mind.
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We stand against fate, as children stand up against the wall in their father's house, and notch their height from year to year. But when the boy grows to a man, and is master of the house, he pulls down that wall and builds it new and bigger.
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When it is dark enough, men see the stars.
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Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.
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The religion which is to guide and fulfill the present and coming ages, whatever else it be, must be intellectual. The scientific mind must have a faith which is science.
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Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.
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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions.
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Be a gift and a benediction.
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Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
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The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith
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As every pool reflects the image of the sun, so every thought and thing restores us an image and creature of the supreme Good. Theuniverse is perforated by a million channels for his activity. All things mount and mount.
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