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The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.
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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A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
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I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-borne treasures home.
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Society cannot do without cultivated men. As soon as the first wants are satisfied, the higher wants become imperative.
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Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.
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An action is the perfection and publication of thought. A right action seems to fill the eye, and to be related to all nature.
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The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.
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Get Health. No labor, effort nor exercise that can gain it must be grudged.
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The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
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Luck is just another word for tenacity of purpose.
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We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.
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An expense of ends to means is fateMorganization tyrannizing over character. The menagerie, or forms and powers of the spine, is a book of fate: the bill of the bird, the skull of the snake, determines tyrannically its limits.
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For flowers that bloom about our feet For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet For song of bird, and hum of bee For all things fair we hear or see, Father in heaven, we thank Thee!
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Let us make education brave and preventive. Politics is an afterwork, a poor patching. We are always a little late... We shall one day learn to supercede politics by education... We must begin higher up, namely in Education.
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Self reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.
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Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.
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The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the mode of that spontaneity. God enters by a private door into every individual.
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The hero is he who is immovably centered.
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A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine. If a singer sing from a sense of duty or from seeing no way to escape,I had rather have none. Those only can sleep who do not care to sleep and those only write or speak best who do not too much respect the writing or the speaking.
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If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.
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If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect.
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