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Motion or change, and identity or rest, are the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and Rest. The whole code of her laws may be written on the thumbnail, or the signet of a ring.
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 imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.
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Isolation must precede true society.
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We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience, or we shall learn nothing rightly.
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Yet a man may love a paradox, without losing either his wit or his honesty.
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Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man.
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I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.
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As long as civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick there will be bitterness in our laughter, and our wine will burn our mouth. Only that good profits which we can taste with all doors open, and which serves all men.
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How much of human life is lost in waiting.
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The aid we can give each other is only incidental, lateral, and sympathetic.
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The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
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The persons who constitute the natural aristocracy, are not found in the actual aristocracy, or, only on its edge as the chemicalenergy of the spectrum is found to be greatest just outside of the spectrum.
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I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called history is.
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Not in his goals but in his transitions, man is great.
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We resent all criticism which denies us anything that lies in our line of advance.
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