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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
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Philosopher
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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness. It taught that to love Him was happiness--to love Him in others' virtues.
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Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot know.
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Every man is the inlet and may become the outlet of all there is in God.
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So far as a person thinks they are free.
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Ethics and religion differ herein that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God Ethics does not.
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There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest, and which our ordinary education oftenlabors to silence and obstruct.
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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
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Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed.
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We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.
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To educate the wise man, the State exists and with the appearance of the wise man, the State expires. The appearance of charactermakes the state unnecessary. The wise man is the State.
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It is the eye which makes the horizon.
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Looking at God instantly reduces our disposition to dissent from our brother.
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Earth's a howling wilderness, Truculent with fraud and force.
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We must learn the language of facts. The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.
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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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The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.
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The best political economy is the care and culture of men for, in these crises, all are ruined except such as are proper individuals, capable of thought, and of new choice and the application of their talent to new labor.
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The eye is the best of artists.
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We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.
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Lose yourself in nature and find peace
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