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Knowledge is when you learn something new every day. Wisdom is when you let something go every day.
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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It does not to dwell on dreams and forget to live, but it is equally foolish to ignore the past – never forget.
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Milton says, that the lyric poet may drink wine and live generously, but the epic poet, he who shall sing of the gods, and their descent unto men, must drink water out of a wooden bowl. For poetry is not Devil's wine, but God's wine.
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Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the government of worse men and the like regret is suggested to all the auditors, as the penalty of abstaining to speak,--that they shall hear worse orators than themselves.
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Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.
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Manners are the happy ways of doing things each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.
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To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of prudence, in the plenitude of its energy and power to repair the harms it may suffer. The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will.
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Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature.
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It is better to suffer injustice than to do it.
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The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation, and the credit of truth and honesty is as safe nor have I any fear that a skeptical bias can be given by leaning hard on the sides of fate, of practical power, or of trade, which the doctrine of Faith cannot down-weigh.
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Are you not scared by seeing that the gypsies are more attractive to us than the apostles?
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This immediate dependence of language upon nature, this conversion of an outward phenomenon into a type of somewhat in human life,never loses its power to affect us. It is this which gives that piquancy to the conversation of a strong-natured farmer or backwoodsman, which all men relish.
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Only those books come down which deserve to last . All the gilt edges, vellum and morocco, all the presentation copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date.
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No man has ever had a point of pride that was not injurious to him.
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Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.
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The height, the deity of man is to be self-sustained, to need no gift, no foreign force. Society is good when it does not violate me, but best when it is likest to solitude.
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When it is dark enough, men see the stars.
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God enters by a private door into every individual.
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Science, Nature,-O, I've yearned to open some page.
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All things are moral and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature.
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All promise outruns performance.
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