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Free should be the scholar - free and brave.
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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There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to his task. What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us?
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I take this evanescence and lubricity of all objects, which lets them slip through our fingers then when we clutch hardest, to be the most unhandsome part of our condition.
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Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions. That which the droning world, chained to appearances, will not allow the realist to say in his own words, it will suffer him to say in proverbs without contradiction.
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When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.
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We do not make a world of our own, but fall into institutions already made, and have to accommodate ourselves to them to be useful at all.
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Perhaps love is only the highest symbol of friendship, as all other things seem symbols of love.
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It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.
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When it is dark enough, men see the stars.
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They think him the best dressed man, whose dress is so fit for his use that you cannot notice or remember to describe it.
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But hospitality must be for service, and not for show, or it pulls down the host. The brave soul rates itself too high to value itself by the splendor of its table and draperies. It gives what it hath, and all it hath, but its own majesty can lend a better grace to bannocks and fair water than belong to city feasts.
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The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.
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Accept your genius and say what you think.
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The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.
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It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience, and makes the world he lives in.
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Every man is a new method.
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If you would serve your brother it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent people do not commend you. Be true to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age.
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I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.
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Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.
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The dice of God are always loaded.
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Health, south wind, books, old trees, a boat, a friend.
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