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Style is only the frame to hold your thoughts. It is like the sash of a window if heavy, it will obscure the light.
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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The hero is he who is immovably centered.
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Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.
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In strict science, all persons underlie the same condition of an infinite remoteness. Shall we fear to cool our love by mining forthe metaphysical foundation of this elysian temple? Shall I not be as real as the things I see? If I am, I shall not fear to know them for what they are.
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Religionists are clinging to little, positive, verbal, formal versions of the moral law... while the laws of the Law, the great circling truths whose only adequate symbol is the material laws, the astronomy etc. are all unobserved, and sneered at when spoken of.
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It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.
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We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
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All my hurts my garden spade can heal.
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Manners are the happy ways of doing things each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.
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The greatest discoveries are those that shed light unto ourselves.
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Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.
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The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of the Universe. The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy. It is, to spend for power, and not for pleasure.
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Beauty rests on necessities.
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We begin with friendships, and all our youth is a reconnoitering and recruiting of the holy fraternity they shall combine for thesalvation of men. But so the remoter stars seem a nebula of united light, yet there is no group which a telescope will not resolve and the dearest friends are separated by impassable gulfs.
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I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
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The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.
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I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil.
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Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread.
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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions.
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Observe how every truth and every error, each a thought of someone's mind, clothes itself with societies, houses, cities, language, ceremonies, newspapers
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A weed is a plant whose virtue is not yet known.
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