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Everything has its price - and if that price is not paid, not that thing but something else is obtained... it is impossible to get anything without this price.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
Biographer
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Essayist
Philosopher
Poet
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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
Something
Price
Paid
Impossible
Else
Anything
Everything
Without
Thing
Obtained

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Every body we know surrounds himself with a fine house, fine books, conservatory, gardens, equipage, and all manner of toys, as screens to interpose between himself and his guest. Does it not seem as if man was of a very sly, elusive nature, and dreaded nothing so much as a full rencontre front to front with his fellow?
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Beauty through my senses stole I yielded myself to the perfect whole.
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The element running through entire nature, which we popularly call Fate, is known to us as limitation. Whatever limits us, we callFate.
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Nothing is arbitrary, nothing is insulated in beauty. It depends forever on the necessary and the useful. The plumage of the bird, the mimic plumage of the insect, has a reason for its rich colors in the constitution of the animal. Fitness is so inseparable an accompaniment of beauty, that it, has been taken for it.
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There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live.
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Because the soul is progressive, it never quite repeats itself, but in every act attempts the production of a new and fairer whole.
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Meek young men grow up in libraries.
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If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience.
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Human society is made up of partialities. Each citizen has an interest and a view of his own, which, if followed out to the extreme, would leave no room for any other citizen.
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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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What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health.
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People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity with the name of hero or saint.
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I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.
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Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.
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Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
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Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.
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The action of the soul is oftener in that which is felt and left unsaid than in that which is said in any conversation. It broods over every society, and men unconsciously seek for it in each other.
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As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action.
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We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves.
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Solitary converse with nature for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, and October woods!
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