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All public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized.
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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Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?
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The way to mend the bad world is to create the right world.
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Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.
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Had I but written as many odes in praise of Muhammad and Ali as I have composed for King Mahmud, they would have showered a hundred blessings on me.
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Deep insight will always, like Nature, ultimate its thought in a thing.
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Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.
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You cannot institute, without peril of charlatanism.
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Greatness once and forever has down with opinion.
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Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.
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Beauty rests on necessities.
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The whole value of the dime is in knowing what to do with it.
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Genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
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If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pinewoods.
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Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
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It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement
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The poorest experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought
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When a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and the purity of its heart.
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We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves.
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You will think me very pedantic, gentlemen, but holiday though it may be, I have not the smallest interest in any holiday, except as it celebrates real and not pretended joys.
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