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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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I am a part and parcel of God.
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Oxford is a little aristocracy in itself, numerous and dignified enough to rank with other estates in the realm and where fame and secular promotion are to be had for study, and in a direction which has the unanimous respect of all cultivated nations.
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A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.
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No hope so bright but is the beginning of its own fulfilment.
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No performance is worth loss of geniality. 'Tis a cruel price we pay for certain fancy goods called fine arts and philosophy.
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Astrology is astronomy brought down to Earth and applied toward the affairs of men.
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Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.
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Life itself is ... a sleep within a sleep.
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The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.
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People wish to be settled only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.
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People say law but they mean wealth.
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Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature.
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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
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Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.
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All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature.
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Money is of no value it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender.
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Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. We're so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside.
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Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.
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Let us learn the meaning of economy. Economy is a high human office,--a sacrament when its aim is grand, when it is the prudence of simple tastes, when it is practised for freedom or for love or devotion.
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It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.
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