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Our opinions of the world, are confessions of character.
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
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The universe is represented in every one of it's particles. Everything is made of one hidden stuff. The world globes itself in a drop of dew. The true doctrine of omnipresence is that God appears with all His parts in every moss and cobweb.
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Do not spill thy soul in running hither and yon, grieving over the mistakes and the vices of others. The one person whom it is most necessary to reform is yourself.
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Women, as most susceptible, are the best index of the coming hour.
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Want is a growing giant whom the coat of have was never large enough to cover.
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Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.
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We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science, or sink into that of sensation. Between these extremes is the equator of life, of thought, or spirit, or poetry,--a narrow belt.
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We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause.
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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the sea.
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Proverbs, words, and grammar inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision, than the wisest individual.
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Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.
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How can he [today's writer] be honored, when he does not honor himself when he loses himself in the crowd when he is no longer the lawgiver, but the sycophant, ducking to the giddy opinion of a reckless public.
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There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth it is the beginning of wisdom.
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The human heart concerns us more than the poring into microscopes, and is larger than can be measured by the pompous figures of the astronomer.
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Test of the poet is knowledge of love, For Eros is older than Saturn or Jove Never was poet, of late or of yore, Who was not tremulous with love-lore.
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The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.
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The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.
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The world is full of judgment-days, and into every assembly that a man enters, in every action he attempts, he is gauged and stamped.
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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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Is there a difference? Yes. We are in harmony with nature, but never at peace.
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It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself.
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