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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
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Massachusetts
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Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation. Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living in the mouths of me.
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I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose.
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A rush of thoughts is the only conceivable prosperity that can come to us.
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As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action.
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But hospitality must be for service, and not for show, or it pulls down the host. The brave soul rates itself too high to value itself by the splendor of its table and draperies. It gives what it hath, and all it hath, but its own majesty can lend a better grace to bannocks and fair water than belong to city feasts.
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Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.
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Each man has an aptitude born with him. Do your work.
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Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.
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How much better when the whole land is a garden, and the people have grown up in the bowers of a paradise.
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The language of the street is always strong.
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There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live.
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There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.
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An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
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As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.
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If the king is in the palace, nobody looks at the walls. It is when he is gone, and the house is filled with grooms and gazers, that we turn from the people, to find relief in the majestic men that are suggested by the pictures and the architecture.
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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
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Nature will not let us fret and fume. She does not like our benevolence or our learning much better than she likes our frauds andwars. When we come out of the caucus, or the bank, or the abolition-convention, or the temperance-meeting, or the transcendental club, into the fields and woods, she says to us, so hot? my little Sir.
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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
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The world is his who can see through its pretension.
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