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The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your force.
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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
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Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as sound to the healthy ear.
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Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
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Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry, she carries them.
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Good-bye, proud world! I'm going home:
Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine.
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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
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The gods sell anything and to everybody at a fair price.
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Law rules throughout existence, a law which is not intelligent, but Intelligence.
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As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.
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The sublime is excited in me by the great stoical doctrine, Obey thyself.
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The universe is all chemistry, with a certain hint of a magnificent Whence or Whereto.
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Speak the affirmative; emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject.
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The walls of rude minds are scrawled all over with facts, with thoughts. They shall one day bring a lantern and read the inscriptions.
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The poisons are our principal medicines, which kill the disease and save the life.
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Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.
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The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
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Genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
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There are…books which take rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative.
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Ever the words of the gods resound; But the porches of man's ear seldom in this low life's round are unsealed, that he may hear.
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There are men, who by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race.
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We do not yet trust the unknown powers of thought. Whence came all these tools, inventions, book laws, parties, kingdoms? Out of the invisible world, through a few brains. The arts and institutions of men are created out of thought. The powers that make the capitalist are metaphysical, the force of method and force of will makes trade, and builds towns.
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And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.
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Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
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Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing -to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.
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Yet would we die as some have done: Beating a way for the rising sun.
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Born:
May 25, 1803
Died:
April 27, 1882
(aged 78)
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Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.
Known for:
Self-Reliance (1841)
Nature (1836)
Essays: First Series (1841)
Representative Men
The Conduct of Life (1860)
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