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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
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Massachusetts
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The pest of society is egotists.
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Each particle is a microcosm, and faithfully renders the likeness of the world.
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I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.
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A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet of those to come, and the harbinger of a greater friend.
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Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyph to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life before he apprehends it as truth.
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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
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Great men exist that there might be greater men.
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There is no calamity that right words will not begin to redress
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The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust.
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How much finer things are in composition than alone.
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The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.
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We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited.
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Love, and you shall be loved.
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Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized now for two hundred years.
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Duty grows everywhere--like children, like grass.
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God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings, and, with each, therefore, a new idea, new inventions, and new applications.
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The life of man is a self-evolving circle.
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In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking.
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In the death of my son, now more than two years ago, I seem to have lost a beautiful estate,--no more. I cannot get it nearer to me.
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Our age is very cheap and intelligible. Unroof any house, and you shall find it. The well-being consists in having a sufficiency of coffee and toast, with a daily newspaper a well glazed parlor, with marbles, mirrors and centre-table and the excitement of a few parties and a few rides in a year.
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