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We must learn the language of facts. The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.
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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It is the eye which makes the horizon.
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Nature encourages no looseness pardons no errors.
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The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out.
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This immediate dependence of language upon nature, this conversion of an outward phenomenon into a type of somewhat in human life,never loses its power to affect us. It is this which gives that piquancy to the conversation of a strong-natured farmer or backwoodsman, which all men relish.
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People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity with the name of hero or saint.
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We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected.
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Every body we know surrounds himself with a fine house, fine books, conservatory, gardens, equipage, and all manner of toys, as screens to interpose between himself and his guest. Does it not seem as if man was of a very sly, elusive nature, and dreaded nothing so much as a full rencontre front to front with his fellow?
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The babe in arms is a channel through which the energies we call fate, love, and reason visibly stream.
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There are moods in which we court suffering, in the hope that here, at least, we shall find reality, sharp peaks and edges of truth. But it turns out to be scene-painting and counterfeit. The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.
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We come to our own and would make friends with matter, which the ambitious chatter of the schools would persuade us to despise. We can never part with it the mind loves its old home: as water to our thirst, so is rock, the ground, to our eyes, and hands, and feet. It is firm water: it is cold flame: what health, what affinity!
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Astrology is astronomy brought down to Earth and applied toward the affairs of men.
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When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near.
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God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.
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Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.
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Now every one must do after his kind, be he asp or angel, and these must.
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Live in the sunshine.
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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
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The dearest events are summer-rain.
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When it is dark enough, men see the stars.
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It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men in their religion in their education in their pursuits their modes of living their association in their property in their speculative views.
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