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Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.
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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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.
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Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.
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Self reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.
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The order of things consents to virtue.
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Religionists are clinging to little, positive, verbal, formal versions of the moral law... while the laws of the Law, the great circling truths whose only adequate symbol is the material laws, the astronomy etc. are all unobserved, and sneered at when spoken of.
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In the moment when you make the least petition to God, though it be but a silent wish that he may approve you, or add one moment to your life,--do you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought? In that act, the soul stands alone with God, and Jesus is no more present to your mind than your brother or your child.
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Nature is the symbol of Spirit.
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When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England, and arriving at its ports with the punctuality of a planet, is a step of man into harmony with nature.
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There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.
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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
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You must let go of a thing for a new one to come to you.
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You must treat the days respectfully, you must be a day yourself, and not interrogate it like a college professor.
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We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man, man.
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The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.
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Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Learn from it... tomorrow is a new day.
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It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.
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Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.
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Knowledge is when you learn something new every day. Wisdom is when you let something go every day.
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