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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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Milton says, that the lyric poet may drink wine and live generously, but the epic poet, he who shall sing of the gods, and their descent unto men, must drink water out of a wooden bowl. For poetry is not Devil's wine, but God's wine.
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Though many painters and sculptors talk glibly of going in for photography, you will find that very few of them can ever make a picture by photography they lack the science, technical knowledge, and above all the practice. Most people think they can play tennis, shoot, write novels, and photograph as well as any other person - until they try
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The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration.
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I suppose you could never explain to the most ingenous molusk that such a creature as a whale existed.
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The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature.
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A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.
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You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.
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Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives.
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The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity.
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We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.
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A man complained that on his way home to dinner he had every day to pass through that long field of his neighbor's. I advised him to buy it, and it would never seem long again.
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Manners have been somewhat cynically defined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance. Fashion is shrewd to detect those who do not belong to her train, and seldom wastes her attentions. Society is very swift in its instincts, and if you do not belong to it, resists and sneers at you, or quietly drops you.
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If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular thing, and every thing, and every man.
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The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior...
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Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience.
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Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.
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On bravely through the sunshine and the showers! Time hath his work to do, and we have ours.
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He in whom the love of truth predominates . . . submits to the inconvenience of suspense and imperfect opinion but he is a candidate for truth . . . and respects the highest law of his being.
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Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.
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