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Proverbs, words, and grammar inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision, than the wisest individual.
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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If you take in a lie, you must take in all that belongs to it.
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Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome.
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A healthy soul stands united with the Just and the True, as the magnet arranges itself with the pole, so that he stands to all beholders like a transparent object betwixt them and the sun, and whoso journeys towards the sun, journeys towards that person. He is thus the medium of the highest influence to all who are not on the same level.
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As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action.
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When we see a special reformer we feel like asking him, What right have you, sir, to your own virtue? Is virtue piecemeal?
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Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises. 'Tis the vulgar great who come dizened with gold and jewels. Real kings hide away their crowns in their wardrobes, and affect a plain and poor exterior.
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The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite.
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It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.
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The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.
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A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine. If a singer sing from a sense of duty or from seeing no way to escape,I had rather have none. Those only can sleep who do not care to sleep and those only write or speak best who do not too much respect the writing or the speaking.
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Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?
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Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.
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The rhyme of the poet Modulates the king's affairs.
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Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
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Fear always springs from ignorance.
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Any relation to the land, the habit of tilling it, or mining it, or even hunting on it, generates the feeling of patriotism. He who keeps shop on it, or he who merely uses it as a support to his desk and ledger, or to his manufactory, values it less.
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Nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere.
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There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the characterwhich draws them.
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Activity is contagious.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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