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In imitation is a bit suicide.

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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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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When I behold a rich landscape, it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity.
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He only is rich who owns the day.
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Society does not love its unmaskers.
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If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.
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I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.
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All are needed by each one Nothing is fair or good alone.
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All history is biography.
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We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings. But how great a language to convey such pepper-corn informations!
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For the resolute and determined, there is time and opportunity.
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A great man will find a great subject, or which is the same thing, make any subject great.
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The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of the Universe. The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy. It is, to spend for power, and not for pleasure.
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The laws of light and of heat translate each other-so do the laws of sound and colour and so galvanism, electricity and magnetism are varied forms of this selfsame energy.
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The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day.
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Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience.
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Lawyers are a prudent race though not very fond of liberty.
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There is a remedy for every wrong and a satisfaction for every soul.
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The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, --/ Never read a book that is not a year old./ Never read any but the famed books./ Never read any but what you like.
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