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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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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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A great man is always willing to be little.
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If in the least particular, one could derange the order of nature, who would accept the gift of life?
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Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether in religion, politics, science or manners, which it will not bear.
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Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief in denying them.
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The religion which is to guide and fulfill the present and coming ages, whatever else it be, must be intellectual. The scientific mind must have a faith which is science.
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No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.
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I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old.
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The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
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What is it men love in Genius, but its infinite hope, which degrades all it has done? Genius counts all its miracles poor and short. Its own idea it never executed.
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He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests he gives an independent, genuine verdict. You must court him: he does not court you. But the man is, as it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness.
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Mankind divides itself into two classes,--benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast the first a handful.
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Noblesse oblige or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity.
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We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. It may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good issues, so it be faithfully imparted, but God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.
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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
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Whatever we think and say is wonderfully better for our spirits and trust in another mouth.
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Every man is an infinitely repelling orb, and holds his individual being on that condition.
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The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
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We fetch fire and water, run about all day among the shops and markets, and get our clothes and shoes made and mended, and are thevictims of these details, and once in a fortnight we arrive perhaps at a rational moment.
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First be a good animal.
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