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The masters painted for joy, and knew not that virtue had gone out of them. They could not paint the like in cold blood. The masters of English lyric wrote their songs so. It was a fine efflorescence of fine powers.
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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Frankness invites frankness.
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Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome.
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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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I am the owner of the sphere, Of the seven stars and the solar year, of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain, Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakespeare's strain.
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Nature is methodical, and doeth her work well. Time is never to be hurried.
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Our distrust is very expensive.
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Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape, and bodily exercise on the mind.
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The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward in talent from without inward.
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Nature ever faithful is To such as trust her faithfulness.
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Words are finite organs of the infinite mind. They cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth. They break, chop, and impoverish it.
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