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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
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R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Any relation to the land, the habit of tilling it, or mining it, or even hunting on it, generates the feeling of patriotism. He who keeps shop on it, or he who merely uses it as a support to his desk and ledger, or to his manufactory, values it less.
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Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.
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O friend, never strike sail to a fear!
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Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the law-giver is before the law-receiver.
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Let a man behave in his own house as a guest.
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Get Health. No labor, effort nor exercise that can gain it must be grudged.
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Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry.
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In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity.
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The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
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Religion must always be a crab fruit it cannot be grafted, and keep its wild beauty.
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In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.
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The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.
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Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
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An empire is an immense egotism.
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A great man is always willing to be little.
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Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.
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Men are better than this theology.
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Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts.
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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
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An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.
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