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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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It is easy to carp at colleges, and the college, if he will wait for it, will have its own turn. Genius exists there also, but will not answer a call of a committee of the House of Commons. It is rare, precious, eccentric, and darkling.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant.
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Teaching is the perpetual end and office of all things. Teaching, instruction is the main design that shines through the sky and earth.
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All that can be done for you is nothing to what you can do for yourself.
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Why should the way I feel depend on the thoughts in someone else's head?
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We shun the rugged battle of fate where strength is born.
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Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and grow up slaves.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The course of everything goes to teach us faith.
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A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.
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It is curious that Christianity, which is idealism, is sturdily defended by the brokers, and steadily attacked by the idealists.
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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
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The hero is suffered to be himself.
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Women have a less accurate measure of time than men there is a clock in Adam, none in Eve.
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Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. We're so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside.
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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
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The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
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We read often with as much talent as we write.
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If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.
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It is an esoteric doctrine of society, that a little wickedness is good to make muscle as if conscience were not good for hands and legs.
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