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Who gave thee, O Beauty, The keys of this breast,-- Too credulous lover Of blest and unblest? Say, when in lapsed ages Thee knew I of old? Or what was the service For which I was sold?
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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The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.
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Your actions speak so loud, I can't hear what you say.
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Always the seer is a sayer. Somehow his dream is told somehow he publishes it with solemn joy: sometimes with pencil on canvas, sometimes with chisel on stone, sometimes in towers and aisles of granite, his soul's worship is builded sometimes in anthems of indefinite music, but clearest and most permanent, in words.
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We read often with as much talent as we write.
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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.
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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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It all begins when the soul would have its way with you.
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The last change in our point of view gives the whole world a pictorial air.
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If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
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Science does not know its debt to imagination.
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The Oversoul is before Time, and Time, Father of all else, is one of his children.
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There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.
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Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
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Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.
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Men have come to speak of the revelation as somewhat long ago given and done, as if God were dead. The injury to faith throttles the preacher and the goodliest of institutions becomes an uncertain and inarticulate voice.
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Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares
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I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victimized in being brought hither?--or, prior to that, answer me this, Are you victimizable?
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The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination, is, that, in such a vast variety of people and conditions, one can believe there is room for persons of romantic character to exist, and that the poet, the mystic, and the hero may hope to confront their counterparts.
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We must learn the language of facts. The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.
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