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		<title>…a man is a fool to be mean &amp; unhappy when every day is made illustrious by these splendid shows</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 08:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I went thro&#8217; the wood to Sleepy Hollow &#038; sat down to hear the harmless roarings of the sunny Southwind. Into the narrow throat of the vale flew dust &#038; leaves from the fields, &#038; straggling leaves mounted &#038; mounted to great heights. The shining boughs of the trees in the sun, the swift sailing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Every man is weak himself but strong in relation to others</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 08:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every man is weak himself but strong in relation to others. I am afraid of Mr Bacon, but Mr Bacon also is afraid of me. I am solicitous of the goodwill of the meanest person, afraid of his ill will. But the sturdiest offender of my peace &#038; of society&#8217;s, if you rip up his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The pictures of the night will always bear some proportion to the visions of the day</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 12:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Culture inspects our dreams also. The pictures of the night will always bear some proportion to the visions of the day. Ralph Waldo Emerson Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks 5:398]]></description>
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		<title>Knowledge alters everything &amp; makes everything fit for use</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 14:29:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Knowledge alters everything &#038; makes everything fit for use. The vocabulary of two omniscient men would embrace words &#038; images now excluded from all polite conversation. The wise will use the language which once he rejected. Wisdom is free. Ralph Waldo Emerson Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks 5:398]]></description>
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		<title>Where money is the main object in view, it is the least thing gained in the transaction</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 07:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are other advantages to be won besides money in the trading of every man. I covet the genuine conversation of my workmen. Where money is the main object in view, it is the least thing gained in the transaction. Ralph Waldo Emerson Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks 5:387]]></description>
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		<title>We are carried by destiny along our life&#8217;s course&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 12:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are carried by destiny along our life&#8217;s course looking as grave &#038; knowing as little as the infant who is carried in his wicker coach thro&#8217; the street. Ralph Waldo Emerson Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks 5:392]]></description>
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		<title>It is better to hear than to speak</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 13:51:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is better to hear than to speak. As long as I hear truth, I am bathed by a beautiful element &#038; am not conscious of any limits to my nature. The suggestions are thousandfold that I hear &#038; see. The waters of the great Deep have ingress &#038; eggress to the soul. But if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Each principle that a man acquires is a lanthorn which he instantly turns full on what facts &amp; thoughts lay already in his mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 14:26:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each principle that a man acquires is a lanthorn which he instantly turns full on what facts &#038; thoughts lay already in his mind and instantly all the rubbish that had littered his garret become precious. Every old &#038; trivial fact in his private biography becomes illustration of this new principle &#038; is recalled into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Could once their eye be turned on the beauty of being as it outshines the beauty of seeming, they would be saved</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:08:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I scarce ever see young women who are not remarkably attractive without a wish an impulse to preach to them the doctrine of character. I have sad foresight of the mortifications that await them when I see what they look on. Could once their eye be turned on the beauty of being as it outshines [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We have vastly more kindness than is ever spoken</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 07:38:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have vastly more kindness than is ever spoken. Maugre all the selfishness, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether. How many persons I meet in houses whom I scarcely speak to, who yet honor me &#038; I them. How many I see in the street or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>…the gains of each day ought to bestow a new vision on tomorrow&#8217;s eyes, a new melody on tomorrow&#8217;s ears</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 07:42:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every day is new; every glance I throw upon nature ought to bring me new information: the gains of each day ought to bestow a new vision on tomorrow&#8217;s eyes, a new melody on tomorrow&#8217;s ears. Ralph Waldo Emerson Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks 5:381]]></description>
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		<title>Draw circles</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 07:46:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Draw circles. The man finishes his story how good! how final! He fills the sky. Lo! on the other side rises also a man and draws a circle around the circle which we had just pronounced the outline of the sphere; then already is our first speaker not Man, but only a first speaker. His [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Genius surprises us with every word. It does not surprise itself.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 09:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Genius surprises us with every word. It does not surprise itself. It is moving by the selfsame law as you obey in your daily cogitation &#038; one day you will tread without wonder the same steps. Ralph Waldo Emerson Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks 5:367]]></description>
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		<title>Man is surprised to find that things near are not less beautiful &amp; wondrous than things remote</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 09:25:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Man is surprised to find that things near are not less beautiful &#038; wondrous than things remote. The secret of the scholar or intellectual man is that all nature is only the foliage, the flowering, &#038; the fruit of the Soul and that every part therefore exists as emblem &#038; sign, of some fact in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I wish not reveries; I like to taste my time &amp; spread myself through all the hour.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2012 18:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I like not to have the day hurry away under me whilst I sit at my desk; I wish not reveries; I like to taste my time &#038; spread myself through all the hour. Ralph Waldo Emerson Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks 5:362]]></description>
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		<title>The preacher enumerates his classes of men and I do not find my place therein</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 08:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The preacher enumerates his classes of men and I do not find my place therein. I suspect then that no man does. Every thing is my cousin, and when he speaks things, I immediately feel he is touching some of my relations, &#038; I am uneasy, but whilst he deals in words I can slumber [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The farmer turns his capital once a year. The merchant many times oftener. The scholar cannot.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 13:39:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The farmer turns his capital once a year. The merchant many times oftener. The scholar cannot. The knowledge which he acquires will not become bread or reputation to him in a year or two years, or ten. There is no double speeder, no railroad, no mechanical multiplication. He gives himself to the slow and unhonored [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Always cast back the child, the man on himself</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 09:41:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Always cast back the child, the man on himself. Teach him to treat things &#038; books &#038; sovereign genius, as himself also a sovereign; that he is porous to principles, by nature a perfect conductor of that electricity, and when he is in the circuit, divine; when not, dead. Ralph Waldo Emerson Journals and Miscellaneous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Men behold in the hero or the poet their own being ripened&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 08:24:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[He lives for us. Men behold in the hero or the poet their own being ripened and are content to be less so that may attain to its full stature. They are content that they themselves shall be brushed like flies from the path of a great person so that justice shall be done by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Scholar is one attuned to nature &amp; life&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.readingemerson.com/2012/03/22/a-scholar-is-one-attuned-to-nature-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 09:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Scholar is one attuned to nature &#038; life so that heaven &#038; earth traverse freely with their influences his heart and meet in him. He is the one who strives to raise himself from private considerations &#038; to breathe &#038; live on public &#038; illustrious thoughts. Ralph Waldo Emerson Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks 5:351]]></description>
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		<title>Always great thoughts are dancing before us</title>
		<link>http://www.readingemerson.com/2012/03/19/always-great-thoughts-are-dancing-before-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 08:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Always great thoughts are dancing before us. We all but apprehend—we vaticinate the laws of human life. We say—‘I will walk abroad &#038; the truth will take form &#038; clearness to me.’ We go forth but cannot find it. It seems as if we only needed the stillness &#038; composed attitude of the study to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not he is great that can alter matter, but he that can alter my state of mind</title>
		<link>http://www.readingemerson.com/2012/03/15/not-he-is-great-that-can-alter-matter-but-he-that-can-alter-my-state-of-mind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:32:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not he is great that can alter matter, but he that can alter my state of mind. But they are the kings of the world give who the color of their present thought to all nature &#038; all art, &#038; persuade men by the cheerful serenity of their carrying the matter that this is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Epitaph</title>
		<link>http://www.readingemerson.com/2012/03/14/epitaph/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 08:12:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Epitaph &#8220;Behold all you who now pass by! As you are now, so once was I; As I am now, so you shall be; Prepare for death, and follow me.&#8221; Ralph Waldo Emerson Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks 5:345]]></description>
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		<title>…you will be forced to take with shame your own opinion from another</title>
		<link>http://www.readingemerson.com/2012/03/11/you-will-be-forced-to-take-with-shame-your-own-opinion-from-another/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2012 15:14:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Abide by your spontaneous impression with good humoured inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else, tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what you have thought &#038; felt all the time, &#038; you will be forced to take with shame your own opinion from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We all undoubtedly expect that time will bring amelioration but whilst the grass grows, the noble steed starves&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.readingemerson.com/2012/03/08/we-all-undoubtedly-expect-that-time-will-bring-amelioration-but-whilst-the-grass-grows-the-noble-steed-starves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote this P.M. to Ms. Fuller, that Power &#038; Aim seldom meet in one soul. The wit of our time is sick for an object. Genius is homesick. I cannot but think that our age is somewhat distinguished hereby, for you cannot talk with any intelligent company without finding expressions of regret &#038; impatience [...]]]></description>
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