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Was never secret history but birds tell it in the bowers.
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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The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.
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If a man carefully examine his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead. Such a creature is probably immortal.
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A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
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Chiefly the sea-shore has been the point of departure to knowledge, as to commerce. The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
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The best of life is conversation.
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The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from.
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Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.
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Love is like a hunter, who cares not for the game when once caught, which he may have pursued with the most intense and breathless eagerness. Love is strongest in pursuit friendship in possession.
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We change whether we like it or not.
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What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.
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The pest of society is egotists.
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The crime which bankrupts men and nations is that of turning aside from one's main purpose to serve a job here and there.
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Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn.
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Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot know.
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Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.
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Where there is no vision a people perish.
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Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. The mind does not create what it perceives, anymore than the eye creates the rose.
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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
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All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.
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Nothing can be more delicate without being fantastical, nothing more firm and based in nature and sentiment, than the courtship and mutual carriage of the sexes.
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