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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
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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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Infancy conforms to nobody all conform to it.
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I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. How far off, how cool, how chaste the persons look,begirt each one with a precinct or sanctuary!
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The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.
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I see my trees repair their boughs.
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Let us make education brave and preventive. Politics is an afterwork, a poor patching. We are always a little late... We shall one day learn to supercede politics by education... We must begin higher up, namely in Education.
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Let us leave hurry to slaves.
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Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore it if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.
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If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.
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The ocean is a large drop a drop is a small ocean.
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Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?.
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When the gods come among men, they are not known.
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I do not know what arguments mean in reference to any expression of a thought. I delight in telling what I think but if you ask me how I dare say so, or why it is so, I am the most helpless of men.
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So in accepting the leading of the sentiments, it is not what we believe concerning the immortality of the soul, or the like, but the universal impulse to believe, that is the material circumstance, and is the principal fact in this history of the globe.
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The French woman says, 'I am a woman and a Parisienne, and nothing foreign to me appears altogether human.'
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If the king is in the palace, nobody looks at the walls. It is when he is gone, and the house is filled with grooms and gazers, that we turn from the people, to find relief in the majestic men that are suggested by the pictures and the architecture.
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The gates of thought, - how slow and late they discover themselves! Yet when they appear, we see that they were always there, always open.
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I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature.
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There can never be deep peace between two spirits, never mutual respect, until, in their dialogue, each stands for the whole world.
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