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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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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Religion must always be a crab fruit it cannot be grafted, and keep its wild beauty.
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The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence.
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The element running through entire nature, which we popularly call Fate, is known to us as limitation. Whatever limits us, we callFate.
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The hero is he who is immovably centered.
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God will not make himself manifest to cowards
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men.
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Do what you're afraid to do.
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Thefts never enrich alms never impoverish murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie-for example, the taint of vanity, the least attempt to make a good impression, a favorable appearance-will instantly vitiate the effect.
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Man was born to be rich, or to inevitably grow rich, by the use of his faculties: by the union of thought with nature.
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Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and power which the work evinced in the artist.
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In the Fiji islands, it appears, cannibalism is now familiar. They eat thier own wives and children. We only devour widows' houses, and great merchants outwit and absorb the substance of small ones, and every man feeds on his neighbor's labor if he can. It is a milder form of cannibalism.
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At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles.
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The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I DO not count the hours I spend In wandering by the sea The forest is my loyal friend, Like God it useth me.
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To Be is to live with God.
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I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant. Now we reckon them as bank-days, by some debt which is to be paid us, or which we are to pay, or some pleasure we are to taste.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Women, as most susceptible, are the best index of the coming hour.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.
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