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"One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on intelligence and intellectuals
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"We lie in the lap of immense intelligence."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on intelligence and intellectuals
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"Everything intercepts us from ourselves."

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"If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him."

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"Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world."

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"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on kindness
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"If you shoot at a king you must kill him."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on kings
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"Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on knowledge
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"Knowledge is the only elegance."

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"Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on knowledge
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"I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven."

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"Language is the archives of history."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on language
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"Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on language
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"Good men must not obey the laws too well."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on law and lawyers
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"The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other."

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"The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting."

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"The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on law and lawyers
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"No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is against it."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on law and lawyers
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"Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on leadership
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"The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on leadership
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"The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on leadership
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"We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night."

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"In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on learning
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"We learn geology the morning after the earthquake."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on learning
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"The years teach us much the days never knew."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on learning
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"The studious class are their own victims: they are thin and pale, their feet are cold, their heads are hot, the night is without sleep, the day a fear of interruption --pallor, squalor, hunger, and egotism."

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"No man ever prayed heartily without learning something."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on learning
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"A man's library is a sort of harem."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on libraries
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"Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is, What it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on libraries
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"Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books. Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the book-worm."

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"Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on lies and lying
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"The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on life
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"Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect."

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"If we live truly, we shall see truly."

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"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on life
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"Life too near paralyses art."

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"Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give."

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"Live, let live, and help live"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on life
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"Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on life
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