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I think I have done well, if I have acquired a new word from a good author and my business with him is to find my own, though itwere only to melt him down into an epithet or an image for daily use.

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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Nature avenges herself speedily on the hard pedantry that would chain her waves. She is no literalist. Every thing must be taken genially, and we must be at the top of our condition, to understand any thing rightly.
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The history of reform is always identical it is the comparison of the idea with the fact. Our modes of living are not agreeable to our imagination. We suspect they are unworthy. We arraign our daily employments.
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The population of the world is a conditional population these are not the best, but the best that could live in the existing state of soils, gases, animals, and morals: the best that could yet live there shall be a better, please God.
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An empire is an immense egotism.
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Do not craze yourself with thinking, but go about your business anywhere.
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Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.
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Every man is wanted, and no man is wanted much.
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Every man's nature is a sufficient advertisement to him of the character of his fellows.
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We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.
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The gentleman is a man of truth.
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Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself.
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Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened then we behold them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream.
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Men do not believe in the power of education. We do not think we can speak to divine sentiments in man, and we do not try. We renounce all high aims.
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There is a tendency in things to right themselves, and the war or revolution or bankruptcy that shatters rotten system, allows things to take a new and natural order.
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The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy.
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Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul.
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With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy. Round it all the muses sing.
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