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Read proudly--put the duty of being read invariably on the author. If he is not read, whose fault is it? I am quite ready to be charmed, but I shall not make-believe I am charmed.
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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Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.
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A man is the prisoner of his power. A topical memory makes him an almanac a talent for debate, disputant skill to get money makes him a miser, that is, a beggar. Culture reduces these inflammations by invoking the aid of other powers against the dominant talent, and by appealing to the rank of powers. It watches success.
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But harder still it has proved to resist and rule the dragon Money, with his paper wings. Chancellors and Boards of Trade, Pitt, Peel, and Bobinson, and their parliaments, and their whole generation, adopted false principles, and went to their graves in the belief that they were enriching the country which they were impoverishing.
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Art is not to be found by touring to Egypt, China, or Peru if you cannot find it at your own door, you will never find it.
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Let there be worse cotton and better men.
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In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.
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Knowledge is the only elegance.
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No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.
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The reverence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous sentiment. Their merit was not to reverence the old, but to honor the present moment and we falsely make them excuses of the very habit which they hated and defied.
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I am become a transparent eyeball.
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I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called history is.
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We are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn betrays its ancestor.
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The gentleman is a man of truth.
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In every situation do the thing you fear. If you do the thing you fear, the death of fear is certain.
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To help the young soul, to add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame to redeem defeat by new thought and firm action, this, though not easy, is the work of divine men.
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Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose.
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Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
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Let us take our bloated nothingness out of the path of the divine circuits.
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Man's actions are the picture book of his creeds.
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An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.
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