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The best political economy is the care and culture of men for, in these crises, all are ruined except such as are proper individuals, capable of thought, and of new choice and the application of their talent to new labor.
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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Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought for causes which are unpenetrated.
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Divine persons are character born, or, to borrow a phrase from Napoleon, they are victory organized.
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Fashion understands itself good-breeding and personal superiority of whatever country readily fraternize with those of every other. The chiefs of savage tribes have distinguished themselves in London and Paris, by the purity of their tournure.
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To me, however, the question of the times resolved itself into a practical question of the conduct of life. How shall I live? We are incompetent to solve the times. Our geometry cannot span the huge orbits of the prevailing ideas, behold their return, and reconcile their opposition. We can only obey our own polarity.
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The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly.
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Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.
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The narrow sectarian cannot read astronomy with impunity. The creeds of his church shrivel like dried leaves at the door of the observatory.
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He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard.
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Nature, as we know her, is no saint.... She comes eating and drinking and sinning.
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I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.
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Nature is methodical, and doeth her work well. Time is never to be hurried.
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We are not free to use today, or to promise tomorrow, because we are already mortgaged to yesterday.
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The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.
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The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time.
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