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There is no architect Can build as the Muse can She is skilful to select Materials for her plan.
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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Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.
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We resent all criticism which denies us anything that lies in our line of advance.
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The best of life is conversation.
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You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. You send him to the Latin class, but much of histuition comes, on his way to school, from the shop- windows.
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Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of SHAKSPEARE's wit. The men who lived with him became Poets, for the air was fame.
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A friend, therefore, is a sort of paradox in nature. I who alone am, I who see nothing in nature whose existence I can affirm with equal evidence to my own, behold now the semblance of my being, in all its height, variety, and curiosity, reiterated in a foreign form so that a friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
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We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.
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You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God you shall not have both.
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A beautiful woman is a practical poet.
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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
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In a world of infinite choice people are struggling to figure out what to do.
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We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.
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Meet your failure nobly, and it will not differ from success.
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Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.
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I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.
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Where there is no vision a people perish.
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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
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Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensable office,--to teach elements. But they can only highly serve us, when they aim not to drill, but to create when they gather from far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls, and, by the concentrated fires, set the hearts of their youth on flame.
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Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.
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We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. We can receive anything from love, forthat is a way of receiving it from ourselves but not from any one who assumes to bestow. We sometimes hate the meat which we eat, because there seems something of degrading dependence in living it.
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