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We live ruins amid ruins.
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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Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.
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Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul. The spirit sports with time.
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Knowledge is the antidote to fear
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He only is a well-made man who has a good determination.
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If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads, just one year afterwards.
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Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
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When I behold a rich landscape, it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity.
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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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We flee away from cities, but we bring The best of cities, these learned classifiers, Men knowing what they seek, armed eyes of experts.
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Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes what a satire this is on government.
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To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same fields, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.
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God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation.
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Great believers are always reckoned infidels, impracticable, fantastic, atheistic, and really men of no account. The spiritualist finds himself driven to express his faith by a series of skepticisms.
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Prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness.
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A day is a miniature eternity.
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Science in England, in America, is jealous of theory, hates the name of love and moral purpose. There's revenge for this humanity.What manner of man does science make? The boy is not attracted. He says, I do not wish to be such a kind of man as my professor is.
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Things bring their own philosophy with them, that is, prudence.
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How much finer things are in composition than alone.
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Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.
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