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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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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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People seem sheathed in their tough organization.
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All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us.
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If you take in a lie, you must take in all that belongs to it.
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Life is too short to waste.
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The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
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Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
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But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things.
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Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
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There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet, who lived in some past world, two or three hundred years ago, says that which lies close to my own soul, that which I also had wellnigh thought and said.
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or if you have slept or if you have head ache or sciatica or leprosy or thunder-stroke, I beseech you, by all angels, to hold your peace and not pollute the morning.
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To clothe the fiery thought In simple words succeeds, For still the craft of genius is To mask a king in weeds.
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Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.
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A man in pursuit of greatness feels no little wants.
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Plant your DREAMS and miracles will grow.
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We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.
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The intellect,-that is miraculous! Who has it, has the talisman: his skin and bones, though they were of the color of night, are transparent, and the everlasting stars shine through, with attractive beams.
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Every man has a choice between love of truth and love of repose. Love of repose brings him a solid reputation and peaceful life love of truth keeps him in suspense. A man who loves truth respects the highest law of his being.
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On bravely through the sunshine and the showers! Time hath his work to do, and we have ours.
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A man in debt is so far a slave.
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The longer we live the more we must endure the elementary existence of men and women and every brave heart must treat society asa child, and never allow it to dictate.
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