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The eye is the best of artists.
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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The secret of the world is the tie between person and event. Person makes event and event person.
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The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss of wealth, a loss of friends, seems at the moment unpaid loss, and unpayable. But the sure years reveal the deep remedial force that underlies all facts.
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Look out! Behind you!
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There is a property in the horizon which no man has, but he whose eyes can integrate all the parts,--that is, the poet.
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Astrology is astronomy brought down to Earth and applied toward the affairs of men.
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The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.
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Character is always known. Thefts never enrich alms never impoverish murder will speak out of stone walls.
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A poem is made up of thoughts, each of which filled the whole sky of the poet in its turn.
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Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.
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Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the government of worse men and the like regret is suggested to all the auditors, as the penalty of abstaining to speak,--that they shall hear worse orators than themselves.
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Conservatism is affluent and openhanded, but there is a cunning juggle in riches. I observe that they take somewhat for everythingthey give. I look bigger, but am less I have more clothes, but am nit so warm more armor, but less courage more books, but less wit.
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First be a good animal.
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A man becomes what he thinks about most of the time
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Men consort in camp and town But the poet dwells alone.
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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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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
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The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.
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Free should be the scholar - free and brave.
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Great men exist that there might be greater men.
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When there is sympathy, there needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise,--so, a blockhead makes a blockhead of his companion. Wonderful power to benumb possesses this brother.
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