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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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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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I am primarily engaged to myself to be a public servant of all the gods, to demonstrate to all men that there is intelligence andgood will at the heart of all things, and even higher and yet higher leadings. These are my engagements how can your law further or hinder me in what I shall do to men?
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Thought is the blossom language the bud action the fruit behind it.
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The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes.
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Man is a piece of the universe made alive
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As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
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A man's style is his mind's voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.
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A walk in the woods is only an exalted dream.
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Your actions speak so loud, I can't hear what you say.
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Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
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Teaching is the perpetual end and office of all things. Teaching, instruction is the main design that shines through the sky and earth.
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It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself.
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When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.
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Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.
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Headwinds are sore vexations and the more passengers the sorer.
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The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs through himself and all things.
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Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.
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I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the luster out of fiction.
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The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal.
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Truth gathers itself spotless and unhurt after all our surrenders and concealments and partisanship never hurt by the treachery or ruin of its best defenders, whether Luther, or William Penn, or St. Paul.
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