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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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Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England, and arriving at its ports with the punctuality of a planet, is a step of man into harmony with nature.
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Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart!-it seems to say,-there is victory yet for all justice and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.
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The narrow sectarian cannot read astronomy with impunity. The creeds of his church shrivel like dried leaves at the door of the observatory.
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See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.
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People who wash much have a high mind about it, and talk down to those who wash little.
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We shun the rugged battle of fate where strength is born.
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The household is a school of power. There, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life.
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God is our name for the last generalization to which we can arrive.
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I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.
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All public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized.
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There are eyes, to be sure, that give no more admission into the man than blueberries.
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I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.
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Imagination is a very high sort of seeing.
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What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
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The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.
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In the Fiji islands, it appears, cannibalism is now familiar. They eat thier own wives and children. We only devour widows' houses, and great merchants outwit and absorb the substance of small ones, and every man feeds on his neighbor's labor if he can. It is a milder form of cannibalism.
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When a dog is chasing after you, whistle for him.
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Look out! Behind you!
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The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect... it is the game of a rude and youthful people, and not the manly labour of a wise and spiritual nation.
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