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Teach the children! It is painting in fresco.
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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Be a football to Time and Chance, the more kicks, the better, so that you inspect the whole game and know its utmost law.
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The universe is represented in every one of it's particles. Everything is made of one hidden stuff. The world globes itself in a drop of dew. The true doctrine of omnipresence is that God appears with all His parts in every moss and cobweb.
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Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go, and is only right admirable when to all its beauty and speed a subserviency to the will, like that of walking, is added.
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The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
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Every sweet has its sour every evil its good.
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It's a luxury to be understood.
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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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The days are made on a loom whereof the warp and woof are past and future time. They are majestically dressed, as if every god brought a thread to the skyey web.
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I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
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A walk in the woods is only an exalted dream.
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There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself.
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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
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Body cannot teach wisdom God only.
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All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.
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What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are.
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Neither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair.
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Sitting back in the evening, stargazing and stroking your dog, is an infallible remedy.
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Noblesse oblige or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity.
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Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.
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The action of the soul is oftener in that which is felt and left unsaid than in that which is said in any conversation. It broods over every society, and men unconsciously seek for it in each other.
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