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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
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A man of good sense but of little faith, whose compassion seemed to lead him to church as often as he went there, said to me 'that he liked to have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and other public amusements go on.
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Culture is one thing and varnish is another.
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A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes, by his distastes, by the stories he tells, by his gait, by the notion of his eye, by the look of his house, of his chamber for nothing on earth is solitary but every thing hath affinities infinite.
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Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.
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And, in fine, the ancient precept, Know thyself, and the modern precept, Study nature, become at last one maxim.
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As we are, so we do and as we do, so is it done to us we are the builders of our fortunes.
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Housekeeping is not beautiful it cheers and raises neither the husband, the wife, nor the child neither the host nor the guestit oppresses women. A house kept to the end of prudence is laborious without joy a house kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.
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There are eyes, to be sure, that give no more admission into the man than blueberries.
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Of immortality, the soul, when well employed, is incurious. It is so well, that it is sure that it will be well. It asks no questions of the Supreme Power.
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Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.
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The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
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The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
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Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.
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Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.
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No institution will be better than the institutor.
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All diseases run into one, old age.
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Women, more than all, are the element and kingdom of illusion. Being fascinated, they fascinate.
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[W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out of their human estate.
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Man sheds grief as his skin sheds rain.
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The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly.
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