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I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore, With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar.
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The world is his, who has money to go over it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.
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The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do.
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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 heroic cannot be the common, nor can the common be the heroic.
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We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.
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Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind and when the same thought occurs in another man, it is the key to that era.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution.
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The word liberty in the mouth of Mr. Webster sounds like the word love in the mouth of a courtesan.
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Oh, tenderly the haughty day Fills his blue urn with fire.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The gods sell anything and to everybody at a fair price.
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God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor.
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There are men who astonish and delight, men who instruct and guide. Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, - ''Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.'
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Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom.
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The less government we have, the better, - the fewer laws, and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.
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How can he today’s writer be honored, when he does not honor himself; when he loses himself in the crowd; when he is no longer the lawgiver, but the sycophant, ducking to the giddy opinion of a reckless public.
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For there's no rood has not a star above it; The cordial quality of pear or plum Ascends as gladly in a single tree, As in broad orchards resonant with bees; And every atom poises for itself, And for the whole.
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The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity, Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew, The conscious stone to beauty grew.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nor mourn the unalterable Days That Genius goes and Folly stays.
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Things added to things, as statistics, civil history, are inventories. Things used as language are inexhaustibly attractive.
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Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
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A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson