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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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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
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A man must keep an eye on his servants, if he would not have them rule him.
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Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.
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Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.
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New York is a sucked orange. All conversation is at an end, when we have discharged ourselves of a dozen personalities, domestic or imported, which make up our American existence.
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The hero is suffered to be himself.
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Genius has no taste for weaving sand.
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Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.
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People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity with the name of hero or saint.
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Empirical science is apt to cloud the sight, and, by the very knowledge of functions and processes, to bereave the student of themanly contemplation of the whole.
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We over-estimate the conscience of our friend. His goodness seems better than our goodness, his nature finer, his temptations less. Everything that is his,--his name, his form, his dress, books, and instruments,--fancy enhances. Our own thought sounds new and larger from his mouth.
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Man is a piece of the universe made alive
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They think him the best dressed man, whose dress is so fit for his use that you cannot notice or remember to describe it.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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Action is the process whereby what is not fully formed passes into expressive consciousness.
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The Roman rule was, to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing. The old English rule was, All summer in the field, and all winter in the study. And it seems as if a man should learn to plant, or to fish, or to hunt, that he might secure his subsistence at all events, and not be painful to his friends and fellow men.
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Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed.
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Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is. The first time you hear it, it sounds rather as if copied out of some invisible tablet in the Eternal mind than as if arbitrarily composed by the poet.
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My garden is a forest ledge Which older forest s bound The banks slope down to the blue lake-edge, Then plunge to depths profound!
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Infancy conforms to nobody all conform to it.
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The charm of fine manners is music and sculpture and picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of these arts.
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