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We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man, man.
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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Look sharply after your own thoughts. They come unlooked for, like a new bird seen on your trees, and, if you turn to your usual task, disappear and you shall never find that perception again never, I say-but perhaps years, ages, and I know not what events and worlds my lie between you and its return.
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The greatest genius is the most indebted person.
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The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.
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Nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
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It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'
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What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of truth and good?
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It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual wants, never to please his fancy.
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Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.
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People only see what they are prepared to see. If you look for what is good and what you can be grateful for you will find it everywhere.
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Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
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Excite the soul, and the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear the world itself loses its solidity, nothing remains but the soul and the Divine Presence in which it lives.
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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.
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There is nothing but is related to us, nothing that does not interest us,--kingdom, college, tree, horse, or iron show,--the rootsof all things are in man.
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Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.
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Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.
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All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.
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The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.
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But speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance. Speak the truth, and all things alive orbrute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.
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Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.
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