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The lover of letters loves power too.
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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But I shall hear without pain, that I play the courtier very ill, and talk of that which I do not well understand.
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We might as easily reprove the east wind, or the frost, as a political party, whose members, for the most part, could give no account of their position, but stand for the defence of those interests in which they find themselves.
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Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function living is the functionary.
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Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.
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In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made different? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.
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One must be an inventor to read well.
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That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual the wise man wonders at the usual.
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When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful, and pleasant as roses, we must thank God that such things can be and are.
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What you do thunders above your head so loudly, I cannot hear the words you speak.
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The universal soul is the alone creator of the useful and the beautiful therefore to make anything useful or beautiful, the individual must be submitted to the universal mind.
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The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.
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It is one soul which animates all men.
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Under every deep a lower deep opens.
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