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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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Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Great men are sincere.
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So in writing, there is always a right word, and every other than that is wrong. There is no beauty in words except in their collocation. The effect of a fanciful word misplaced, is like that of a horn of exquisite polish growing on a human head.
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Whatever we think and say is wonderfully better for our spirits and trust in another mouth.
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Those who have ruled human destinies, like planets, for thousands of years, were not handsome men.
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America is a country of young men.
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The pulpit and the press have many commonplaces denouncing the thirst for wealth, but if men should take these moralists at their word, and leave off aiming to be rich, the moralists would rush to rekindle at all hazards this love of power in the people, lest civilization should be undone.
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We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim.
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We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.
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Though your views are in straight antagonism to theirs, assume an identity of sentiment, assume that you are saying precisely thatwhich all think, and in the flow of wit and love roll out your paradoxes in solid column, with not the infirmity of a doubt.
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Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.
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What is the end of human life? It is not, believe me, the chief end of man that he should make a fortune and beget children whose end is likewise to make a fortune, but it is, in few words, that he should explore himself.
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To eat bread is one thing to love the precepts of Christ and resolve to obey them is quite another.
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Duty grows everywhere--like children, like grass.
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Men consort in camp and town But the poet dwells alone.
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Thus grows up fashion, an equivocal semblance, the most puissant, the most fantastic and frivolous, the most feared and followed, and which morals and violence assault in vain.
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When it comes to divide an estate, the politest men quarrel.
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Art is the need to create but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied hands, and of making cripples and monsters, such as all pictures and statues are. Nothing less than the creation of man and nature is its end.
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.
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