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A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price.
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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R. W. Emerson
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At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles.
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When good is near you, when you have life in yourself, it is not by any known or accustomed way you shall not discern the foot-prints of any other you shall not see the face of man you shall not hear any name the way, the thought, the good, shall be wholly strange and new. It shall exclude example and experience.
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An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.
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Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.
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The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
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The picture waits for my verdict it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.
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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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We know who is benevolent, by quite other means than the amount of subscriptions to soup-societies. It is only low merits that canbe enumerated.
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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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It is never too late to do right.
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Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat.
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If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none. If there is grandeur in you, you will find grandeur in porters and sweeps.
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Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdom which cannot help itself.
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To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.
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An answer in words is delusive it is really no answer to the questions you ask.
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The best nations are those most widely related and navigation, as effecting a world-wide mixture, is the most potent advancer ofnations.
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If I made laws for Shakers or a school, I should gazette every Saturday all the words they were wont to use in reporting religious experience, as spiritual life, God, soul, cross, etc., and if they could not find new ones next week, they might remain silent.
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Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.
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