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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
Waldo Emerson
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I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant. Now we reckon them as bank-days, by some debt which is to be paid us, or which we are to pay, or some pleasure we are to taste.
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Many photographers think they are photographing nature when they are only caricaturing her.
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Chiefly the sea-shore has been the point of departure to knowledge, as to commerce. The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
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Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?
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Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply,- 'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.
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Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?
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I wish that friendship should have feet, as well as eyes and eloquence. It must plant itself on the ground, before it vaults overthe moon. I wish it to be a little of a citizen, before it is quite a cherub.
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Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our own spontaneous expression with good humored inflexibility whether the whole cry of voices is on the other side.
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I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world. With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations of nature.
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Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life.
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I covet truth beauty is unripe childhood's cheat I leave it behind with the games of youth.
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Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms. Pay it away quickly in some sort.
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Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.
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All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.
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My doom and my strength is to be solitary.
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No institution will be better than the institutor.
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The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.
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