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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
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R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose.
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With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy. Round it all the muses sing.
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The intellect,-that is miraculous! Who has it, has the talisman: his skin and bones, though they were of the color of night, are transparent, and the everlasting stars shine through, with attractive beams.
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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
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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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The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the base.
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True friends are two people who are comfortable sharing silence together.
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The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.
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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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In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part.
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Sometimes we receive the power to say yes to life. Then peace enters us and makes us whole.
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Examples are cited by soldiers, of men who have seen the cannon pointed, and the fire given to it, and who have stepped aside from he path of the ball. The terrors of the storm are chiefly confined to the parlour and the cabin.
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No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, usages, and arts, of his times shall have no share.
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