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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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  • The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.
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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 President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne.
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  • The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.
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  • The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.
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  • The world is his who has money to go over it.
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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 is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.
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  • There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.
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  • Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
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  • To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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  • To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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  • To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.
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  • We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will abolish slavery.
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  • What is the hardest thing in the world? To think.
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  • When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
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