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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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To be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false,--this is the mark and character of intelligence.
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The solid, solid universe Is pervious to Love With bandaged eyes he never errs, Around, below, above. His blinding light He flingeth white On God's and Satan's brood, And reconciles By mystic wiles The evil and the good.
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All reform aims, in some one particular, to let the soul have its way through us in other words, to engage us to obey.
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This immediate dependence of language upon nature, this conversion of an outward phenomenon into a type of somewhat in human life,never loses its power to affect us. It is this which gives that piquancy to the conversation of a strong-natured farmer or backwoodsman, which all men relish.
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Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.
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What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.
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Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.
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Dreams and beasts are two keys by which we find out the keys of our own nature.
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
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All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.
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But genius is religious. It is a larger imbibing of the common heart.
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Knowledge is the antidote to fear. [especially as fear often stands for false evidence appearing real!]
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In dreams we are true poets we create the persons of the drama we give them appropriate figures faces, costumes they are perfect in their organs, attitudes, manners moreover they speak after their own characters, not ours and we listen with surprise to what they say.
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A strong person makes the law and custom null before his own will.
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All power is of one kind, a sharing of the nature of the world. The mind that is parallel with the laws of nature will be in the current of events, and strong with their strength.
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Power and speed be hands and feet.
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He only is a well-made man who has a good determination. And the end of culture is not to destroy this, God forbid! but to train away all impediment and mixture and leave nothing but pure power.
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I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.
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All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world.
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