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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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Our age is very cheap and intelligible. Unroof any house, and you shall find it. The well-being consists in having a sufficiency of coffee and toast, with a daily newspaper a well glazed parlor, with marbles, mirrors and centre-table and the excitement of a few parties and a few rides in a year.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The cities drain the country of the best part of its population: the flower of the youth, of both sexes, goes into the towns, andthe country is cultivated by a so much inferior class. The land,--travel a whole day together,--looks poverty-stricken, and the buildings plain and poor.
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There is a remedy for every wrong and a satisfaction for every soul.
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Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape, and bodily exercise on the mind.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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God has delegated himself to a million deputies.
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We pray to be conventional. But the wary Heaven takes care you shall not be, if there is anything good in you. Dante was very badcompany, and was never invited to dinner.
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If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience.
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Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensable office,--to teach elements. But they can only highly serve us, when they aim not to drill, but to create when they gather from far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls, and, by the concentrated fires, set the hearts of their youth on flame.
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It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.
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When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near.
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Rings and other jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself.
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We must be courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.
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Culture is one thing and varnish is another.
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Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.
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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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But genius is religious. It is a larger imbibing of the common heart.
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I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.
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The greatest discoveries are those that shed light unto ourselves.
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If it costs ten years, and ten to recover the general prosperity, the destruction of the South is worth so much.
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