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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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When a man becomes cultivated, he develops a new respect for who he is. This causes him to be ashamed of his past identification of himself and others according to things, i.e. property.
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All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature.
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Truth is beautiful within and without, forevermore.
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Bonaparte knew but one merit, and rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet, the good player.
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Are you not scared by seeing that the gypsies are more attractive to us than the apostles?
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The wonder is always new that any sane man can be a sailor.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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Conservatism is affluent and openhanded, but there is a cunning juggle in riches. I observe that they take somewhat for everythingthey give. I look bigger, but am less I have more clothes, but am nit so warm more armor, but less courage more books, but less wit.
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For you, o broker, there is no other principle but arithmetic. For me, commerce is of trivial import love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred nor can I detach one duty, like you, from all other duties, and concentrate my forces mechanically on the payment of moneys.
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Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
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Tragedy is in the eye of the observer, and not in the heart of the sufferer.
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All that can be done for you is nothing to what you can do for yourself.
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Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.
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The Same, the Same: friend and foe are of one stuff the ploughman, the plough, and the furrow, are of one stuff and the stuff is such, and so much, that the variations of form are unimportant.
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There is one mind common to all individual men
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Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . .
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The moral sense is always supported by the permanent interest of the parties. Else, I know not how, in our world, any good would ever get done.
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As Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant. There is not a property in nature but a mind is born to seek and find it.
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Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.
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The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach that nature's dice are always loaded that in her heaps and rubbish are concealed sure and useful results.
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