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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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The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry.
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Religion must always be a crab fruit it cannot be grafted, and keep its wild beauty.
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Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
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God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation.
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That you are fair or wise is vain, Or strong, or rich, or generous You must have also the untaught strain That sheds beauty on the rose.
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Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.
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In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking.
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All history is biography.
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Romeo, of dead, should be cut up into little stars to make the heavens fine. Life, with this pair, has no other aim, asks no more,than Juliet,--than Romeo.
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
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There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins.
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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Their cousins can tell you nothing about them. They lived in their writings, and sotheir house and street life was trivial and commonplace. If you would know their tastes and complexions, the most admiring of their readers most resembles them.
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The powers of the Soul are commensurate with its needs.
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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
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America is a country of young men.
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The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded.
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I will not live out of me I will not see with others' eyes My good is good, my evil ill I would be free.
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Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.
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Mankind divides itself into two classes,--benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast the first a handful.
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