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When the gods come among men, they are not known.

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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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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We are imprisoned in life in the company of persons powerfully unlike us.
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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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Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
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Nature, as we know her, is no saint.... She comes eating and drinking and sinning.
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Eyes...They speak all languages.
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Do that which you fear to do, and the fear will die.
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He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.
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Meet your failure nobly, and it will not differ from success.
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Teach me your mood, O patient stars. Who climb each night, the ancient sky. leaving on space no shade, no scars, no trace of age, no fear to die.
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Good nature is stronger than tomahawks.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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Our age is very cheap and intelligible. Unroof any house, and you shall find it. The well-being consists in having a sufficiency of coffee and toast, with a daily newspaper a well glazed parlor, with marbles, mirrors and centre-table and the excitement of a few parties and a few rides in a year.
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Therefore is nature ever the ally of Religion: lends her all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment.
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I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the luster out of fiction.
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A man in pursuit of greatness feels no little wants.
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A self-denial, no less austere than the saint's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forgo all things for that,and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented.
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