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The simplest words,--we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire.
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
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Great men are sincere.
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It is noticed, that the consideration of the great periods and spaces of astronomy induces a dignity of mind, and an indifferenceto death.
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Our strength grows out of our weakness.
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Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.
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Books are the best of things, well used abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.
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Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth. This limbo and dust-hole of thought is presided over by a certain reason, too.
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Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul. What he announces, I must find true in me, or reject and on his word, or as his second, be he who he may, I can accept nothing.
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As men get on in life, they acquire a love for sincerity, and somewhat less solicitude to be lulled or amused. In the progress ofthe character, there is an increasing faith in the moral sentiment, and a decreasing faith in propositions.
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I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.
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The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
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Pretension may sit still, but cannot act. Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness. Pretension never wrote an Iliad, nordrove back Xerxes, nor christianized the world, nor abolished slavery.
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A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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Life is too short to waste . . . 'Twill soon be dark Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark!
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The finest poetry was first experience.
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Genius always finds itself a century too early.
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Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.
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Tis the privilege of Art Thus to play its cheerful part, Man on earth to acclimate And bend the exile to his fate.
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By going one step further back in thought, discordant opinions are reconciled by being seen to be two extremes of one principle, and we can never go so far back as to preclude a still higher vision.
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There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works.
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