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Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle everything else is an intrigue.
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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But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on our population where all the millions read and write ? It is the joy of nations that man can communicate all his thoughts, discoveries and virtues to records that may last for centuries.
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The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.
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The Englishman who has lost his fortune is said to have died of a broken heart.
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We over-estimate the conscience of our friend. His goodness seems better than our goodness, his nature finer, his temptations less. Everything that is his,--his name, his form, his dress, books, and instruments,--fancy enhances. Our own thought sounds new and larger from his mouth.
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Nature is upheld by antagonism.
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Every thing admonishes us how needlessly long life is.
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The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.
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Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves, the converting of the sap and juices of the planet to the incarnation and nutriment of their design.
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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the sea.
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The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.
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Everything intercepts us from ourselves.
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The affections cannot keep their youth any more than men.
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Beauty brings its own fancy price, for all that a man hath will he give for his love.
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Wise men are not wise at all times.
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Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle: endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge.
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Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the government of worse men and the like regret is suggested to all the auditors, as the penalty of abstaining to speak,--that they shall hear worse orators than themselves.
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Nature, as we know her, is no saint.... She comes eating and drinking and sinning.
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Thought dissolves the material universe by carrying the mind up into a sphere where all is plastic.
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Any work looks wonderful to me except the one which I can do.
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What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, and yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.
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