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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

American poet and philosopher

Lived from: 1803 - 1882

Category: Philosophers | Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 25 may 1803 Died: 27 april 1882

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  • Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.
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  • Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
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  • Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.
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  • Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.
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  • Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends.
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  • The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.
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  • The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.
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  • The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.
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  • The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.
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  • The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.
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  • The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is - Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity, custom, and fear.
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  • The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. He plies the slow, unhonored, and unpaid task of observation. He is the world's eye.
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  • The reason why men do not obey us is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
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  • The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
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  • The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
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  • The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.
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  • The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.
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  • The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.
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  • There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.
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  • To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius.
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