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I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is doing today.
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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Governments have their origin in the moral identity of men.
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The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we may move it....we see literature best from the midst of wild nature, or from the din of affairs, or from a high religion. The field cannot be well seen from within the field.
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There is always room for a person of force and they make room for many.
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Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.
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In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made different? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.
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Gold and iron are good To buy iron and gold.
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A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you are not yourself. Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason. Know this to be the enemy: it is anger, born of desire.
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The dearest events are summer-rain.
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I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals.
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I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-borne treasures home.
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Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.
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I wish to speak with all respect of persons, but sometimes I must pinch myself to keep awake, and preserve the due decorum. They melt so fast into each other, that they are like grass and trees, and it needs an effort to treat them as individuals.
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The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.
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We may be partial, but Fate is not.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from.
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Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.
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Beauty rests on necessities.
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The gates of thought, - how slow and late they discover themselves! Yet when they appear, we see that they were always there, always open.
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Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
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