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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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Philosopher
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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
May
Partial
Fate

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Language is the archives of history.
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The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the base.
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The beautiful is never plentiful.
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Empirical science is apt to cloud the sight, and, by the very knowledge of functions and processes, to bereave the student of themanly contemplation of the whole.
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Free should be the scholar - free and brave.
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It is with a good book as it is with good company.
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London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.
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Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
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Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?
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As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
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Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquillity that religion is powerless to bestow.
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He who does a good deed is instantly ennobled. He who does a mean deed is by the action itself contracted.
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Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.
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The world-spirit is a good swimmer, and storms and waves can not drown him. He snaps his fingers at laws and so, throughout history, heaven seems to affect low and poor means. Through the years and the centuries, through evil agents, through toys and atoms, a great and beneficent tendency irresistibly streams.
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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
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As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.
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By going one step further back in thought, discordant opinions are reconciled by being seen to be two extremes of one principle, and we can never go so far back as to preclude a still higher vision.
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Poverty demoralizes. A man in debt is so far a slave and Wall-street thinks it easy for a millionaire to be a man of his word, aman of honor, but, that, in failing circumstances, no man can be relied on to keep his integrity.
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