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One must be an inventor to read well.
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
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We don't grow old. When we cease to grow, we become old.
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The only thing that can grow is the thing you give energy to.
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There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest, and which our ordinary education oftenlabors to silence and obstruct.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven depending on whether they compare it to something better and so feel disappointed and bitter or something worse and so feel relieved and grateful.
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Yet America is a poem in our eyes its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.
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And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.
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People who wash much have a high mind about it, and talk down to those who wash little.
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Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest when they are sick or aged. In the morning, or when their intellect or their conscience has been aroused, when they hear music, or when they read poetry, they are radicals.
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All that can be done for you is nothing to what you can do for yourself.
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Tis the privilege of Art Thus to play its cheerful part, Man on earth to acclimate And bend the exile to his fate.
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We pray to be conventional. But the wary Heaven takes care you shall not be, if there is anything good in you. Dante was very badcompany, and was never invited to dinner.
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The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both.
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Knowledge is the antidote to fear,- Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids.
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We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.
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The ancestor of every action is a thought.
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But genius is religious. It is a larger imbibing of the common heart.
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Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?
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