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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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Nature ever faithful is To such as trust her faithfulness.
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Personal rights, universally the same, demand a government framed on the ratio of the census: property demands a government framedon the ratio of owners and of owning.
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People who know how to act are never preachers.
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Beside all the small reasons we assign, there is a great reason for the existence of every extant fact a reason which lies grandand immovable, often unsuspected behind it in silence.
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There are moods in which we court suffering, in the hope that here, at least, we shall find reality, sharp peaks and edges of truth. But it turns out to be scene-painting and counterfeit. The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.
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Power is the first good.
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The House ...She lays her beams in music, In music everyone, To the cadence of the whirling world Which dances around the sun- That so they shall not be displaced By lapses or by wars, But for the love of happy souls Outlive the newest stars.
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The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not.
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We might as easily reprove the east wind, or the frost, as a political party, whose members, for the most part, could give no account of their position, but stand for the defence of those interests in which they find themselves.
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You cannot institute, without peril of charlatanism.
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See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.
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I am become a transparent eyeball.
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A man complained that on his way home to dinner he had every day to pass through that long field of his neighbor's. I advised him to buy it, and it would never seem long again.
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Never try to make anyone like you: you know, and God knows, that one of you is enough.
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The gentleman is a man of truth.
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Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.
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Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go, and is only right admirable when to all its beauty and speed a subserviency to the will, like that of walking, is added.
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The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith
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A child convinced against his will is of the same opinion still. The reward for a thing well done, is to have done it.
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No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.
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