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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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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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The wings of Time are black and white, Pied with morning and with night.
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The connection between our knowledge and the abyss of being is still real, and the explication must be not less magnificent.
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We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.
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[A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand.
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Go out of the house to see the moon, and't is mere tinsel it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey.
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To believe in luck ... is skepticism.
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Marriage (in what is called the spiritual world) is impossible, because of the inequality between every subject and every object.
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The day is always his, who works in it with serenity and great aims.
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A state of war or anarchy, in which law has little force, is so far valuable, that it puts every man on trial. The man of principle is known as such, and even in the fury of faction is respected.
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London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.
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Thought is the seed of action.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.
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What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are.
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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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Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
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What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, and yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.
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The reverence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous sentiment. Their merit was not to reverence the old, but to honor the present moment and we falsely make them excuses of the very habit which they hated and defied.
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Eyes...They speak all languages.
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Sitting back in the evening, stargazing and stroking your dog, is an infallible remedy.
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