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It is for want of self-culture that the superstition of Travelling, whose idols are Italy, England, Egypt, retains its fascinationfor all educated Americans.
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 cheapness of man is every day's tragedy. It is as real a loss that others should be low, as that we should be low for we musthave a society.
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The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed.
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The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses.
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Take the place and attitude to which you see your unquestionable right, and all men acquiesce.
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Far or forgot to me is near Shadow and sunlight are the same The vanished gods to me appear And one to me are shame and fame.They reckon ill who leave me out When me they fly, I am the wings I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.
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The surest poison is time.
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I have just been conversing with one man, to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest sentiments, as well as a knot of friends, or a pair of lovers.
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The key to every man is his thought.
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Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men or they are no better than dreams.
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We cannot let our angels go we do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in.
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Ever fresh the broad creation, A divine improvisation, From the heart of God proceeds, A single will, a million deeds.
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A little fact is worth a whole limbo of dreams.
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Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.
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I think I have done well, if I have acquired a new word from a good author and my business with him is to find my own, though itwere only to melt him down into an epithet or an image for daily use.
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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
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