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As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions.
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
Waldo Emerson
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The world is his who can see through its pretension.
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It now appears that the negro race is, more than any other, susceptible of rapid civilization. The emancipation is observed, in the islands, to have wrought for the negro a benefit as sudden as when a thermometer is brought out of the shade into the sun. It has given him eyes and ears.
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The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.
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If you follow the suburban fashion in building a sumptuous- looking house for a little money, it will appear to all eyes as a cheap, dear house.
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Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man.
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Human beings cannot endure the geological chaos they encounter under the soil of their own gardens.
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As we are, so we do and as we do, so is it done to us we are the builders of our fortunes.
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The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all valid minds.
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Instead of making Christianity a vehicle of truth, you make truth only a horse for Christianity.
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Society, to be sure, does not like this very well it saith, Whoso goes to walk alone, accuses the whole world he declares all to be unfit to be his companions it is very uncivil, nay, insulting Society will retaliate.
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Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?
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There is always safety in valor.
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I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world. With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations of nature.
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Nature and literature are subjective phenomena every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast
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A friend, therefore, is a sort of paradox in nature. I who alone am, I who see nothing in nature whose existence I can affirm with equal evidence to my own, behold now the semblance of my being, in all its height, variety, and curiosity, reiterated in a foreign form so that a friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
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When the gods come among men, they are not known.
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Poets should be law-givers that is, the boldest lyric inspiration should not chide and insult, but should announce and lead the civil code, and the day's work.
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The world leaves no track in space, and the greatest action of man no mark in the vast idea.
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You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
He is the rich man in whom the people are rich, and he is the poor man in whom the people are poor and how to give access to themasterpieces of art and nature, is the problem of civilization.
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