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I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me.
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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I feel some unwillingness to quit the remembrance of the past. With all the hope of the new I feel that we are leaving the old.
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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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Human beings cannot endure the geological chaos they encounter under the soil of their own gardens.
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The universal soul is the alone creator of the useful and the beautiful therefore to make anything useful or beautiful, the individual must be submitted to the universal mind.
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How much better when the whole land is a garden, and the people have grown up in the bowers of a paradise.
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My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.
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Insist on yourself. Never imitate.
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Life is short but there is always time for courtesy.
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The mind will quote whether the tongue does or not.
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The soul lets no man go without some visitations and holy-days of a diviner presence.
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Let ideas establish their legitimate sway again in society, let life be fair and poetic, and the scholars will gladly be lovers, citizens, and philanthropists.
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Men do not believe in the power of education. We do not think we can speak to divine sentiments in man, and we do not try. We renounce all high aims.
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For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency, because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.
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The day is always his, who works in it with serenity and great aims.
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Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.
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God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. Always, always, always, always, always do what you are afraid to do. Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
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'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.
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To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone.
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When all shoot at one mark, the gods join in the combat.
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God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
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