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Thought dissolves the material universe by carrying the mind up into a sphere where all is plastic.
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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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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How beautiful to have the church always open, so that every tired wayfaring man may come in and be soothed by all that art can suggest of a better world when he is weary with this.
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One single idea may have greater weight than all the men, animals, and machines for a century.
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The common experience is, that the man fits himself as well as he can to the customary details of that work or trade he falls into, and tends it as a dog turns a spit. Then he is part of the machine he moves the man is lost.
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A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home and look up his manuscripts to know.
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Calmness is always godlike.
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No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.
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A human being should beware how he laughs, for then he shows all his faults.
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The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.
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The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.
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Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.
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When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.
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Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings.
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Revolutions go not backward.
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The influence of fine scenery, the presence of mountains, appeases our irritations and elevates our friendships.
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If any mention was made of homicide, madness, adultery, and intolerable tortures, we would let the church-bells ring louder, the church-organ swell its peal and drown the hideous sound. The sugar they raised was excellent: nobody tasted blood in it.
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Washington, where an insignificant individual may trespass on a nation's time.
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No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
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