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To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul. A true conversion, a true Christ, is now, as always, to be madeby the reception of beautiful sentiments.
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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There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge and fox and squirrel and mole.
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There comes a period of the imagination to each--a later youth--the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry.
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What is addressed to us for contemplation does not threaten us, but makes us intellectual beings.
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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
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Let a man behave in his own house as a guest.
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Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding
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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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Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.
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The gentleman is a man of truth.
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Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up
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Teach the children! It is painting in fresco.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.
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The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him.
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To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same fields, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.
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We expect a great man to be a good reader.
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Nature forever puts a premium on reality. What is done for effect is seen to be done for effect what is done for love is felt to be done for love. A man inspires affection and honor because he was not lying in wait for these.
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The true poem is the poet's mind.
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That you are fair or wise is vain, Or strong, or rich, or generous You must have also the untaught strain That sheds beauty on the rose.
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