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Virtue alone is sweet society,
It keeps the key to all heroic hearts,
And opens you a welcome in them all.
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Best masters for the young writer and speaker are the fault- finding brothers and sisters at home who will not spare him, but willpick and cavil, and tell the odious truth.
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Be lord of a day, through wisdom and justice, and you can put up your history books.
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The new statement is always hated by the old, and, to those dwelling in the old, comes like an abyss of skepticism.
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It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.
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Success in your work, the finding a better method, the better understanding that insures the better performing is hat and coat, is food and wine, is fire and horse and health and holiday. At least, I find that any success in my work has the effect on my spirits of all these.
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There can never be deep peace between two spirits, never mutual respect, until, in their dialogue, each stands for the whole world.
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We imperatively require a perception of and a homage to beauty in our companions. Other virtues are in request in the field and workyard, but a certain degree of taste is not to be spared in those we sit with.
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When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence.
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My good hoe as it bites the ground revenges my wrongs, and I have less lust to bite my enemies. In the smoothing the rough hillocks, I smooth my temper.
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Moon, planet, gas, crystal, are concrete geometry and numbers.
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Who shall forbid a wise skepticism, seeing that there is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had?
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If I quake, what matters it what I quake at? Our proper vice takes form in one or another shape, according to the sex, age, or temperament of the person, and, if we are capable of fear, will readily find terrors.
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Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul.
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No man has a right perception of any truth, who has not been reacted on by it, so as to be ready to be its martyr.
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The world is not made up to the eye of figures, that is, only half; it is also made of color. How that element washes the universe with its enchanting waves!.... It is the last stroke of Nature; beyond color she cannot go.
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No picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts. A man's power is hooped in by a necessity, which, by many experiments, he touches on every side, until he learns its arc.
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The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in history, owe themselves mainly to the new subdivisions of the State into small corporations of land and power.
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The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.
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The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.
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We resent all criticism which denies us anything that lies in our line of advance.
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We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom, power, and grace which we feel to be proper to man, proper to us.
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What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of childhood? St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed.
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Some men love only to talk where they are masters. They like to go to school-girls, or to boys, or into the shops where the sauntering people gladly lend an ear.
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All the elements, whose aid man calls in, will sometimes become big masters.
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A self-denial, no less austere than the saint's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forgo all things for that,and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented.
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The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues, with the advantage that the ocular dialect needs no dictionary, but is understood all the world over.
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The way to learn German, is, to read the same dozen pages over and over a hundred times, till you know every word and particle in them, and can pronounce and repeat them by heart.
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And the glory of character is in affronting the horrors of depravity to draw thence new nobilities of power: as Art lives and thrills in new use and combining of contrasts, and mining into the dark evermore for blacker pits of night.
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The world is an immense picture-book of every passage in human life.
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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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