“Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear; the profit of books is...”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American philosopher, essayist, and poet, best remembered for leading the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. His teachings directly influenced the growing New Thought movement of the mid-1800s. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society. Emerson gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy of Transcendentalism in his 1836 essay, Nature. As a result of this ground-breaking work he gave a speech entitled The American Scholar in 1837, which Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. considered to be America's "Intellectual Declaration of Independence". Considered one of the great orators of the time, Emerson's enthusiasm and respect for his audience enraptured crowds. His support for abolitionism late in life created controversy, and at times he was subject to abuse from crowds while speaking on the topic. When asked to sum up his work, he said his central doctrine was "the infinitude of the private man." ([Source][1]) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson
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“In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes; and though they know us, and have been waiting two...”
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“Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.”
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“Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts o...”
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“The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own sec...”
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“The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.”
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“the poor man, whom the law does not allow to take an ear of corn when starving, nor a pair of shoes for his freezing feet, is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, Yo...”
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“The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.”
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“The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear.”
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“We aim above the mark to hit the mark.”
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“Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much b...”
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“Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.”
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“I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.”
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“Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.”
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“Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.”
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“Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.”
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“We acquire the strength we have overcome.”
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“Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.”
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“Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.”
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“Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.”
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