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My doom and my strength is to be solitary.
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
Waldo Emerson
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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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In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place.
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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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But I shall hear without pain, that I play the courtier very ill, and talk of that which I do not well understand.
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The shows of the day, the dewy morning, the rainbow, mountains, orchards in blossom, stars, moonlight, shadows in still water, andthe like, if too eagerly hunted, become shows merely, and mock us with their unreality.
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Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade. Their works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world. I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is not an apology, but a life.
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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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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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Our age is very cheap and intelligible. Unroof any house, and you shall find it. The well-being consists in having a sufficiency of coffee and toast, with a daily newspaper a well glazed parlor, with marbles, mirrors and centre-table and the excitement of a few parties and a few rides in a year.
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Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet
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[on Thoreau:] For not a particle of respect had he to the opinions of any man or body of men, but homage solely to truth itself.
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No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
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Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.
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The State is our neighbors our neighbors are the State.
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Every stoic was a stoic but in Christendom where is the Christian?
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Every man should let out all the length of all the reigns should find or make a frank and healthy expression of what force and meaning is in him.
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Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.
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Natural religion supplies still all the facts which are disguised under the dogma of popular creeds. The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals.
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Things bring their own philosophy with them, that is, prudence.
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The crime which bankrupts men and nations is that of turning aside from one's main purpose to serve a job here and there.
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