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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
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I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature.
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You are constantly invited to be what you are.
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But I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle, I leave the village politics and personalities, yes, and the world of villages and personalities behind, and pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight, too bright almost for spotted man to enter without novitiate and probation.
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So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth whispers, 'I can.
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It is a luxury to be understood.
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Beware of jokes from which we go away hollow and ashamed.
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That you are fair or wise is vain, Or strong, or rich, or generous You must have also the untaught strain That sheds beauty on the rose.
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Do your work, but do your thing.
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The mass are animal, in pupilage, and near chimpanzee.
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Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness. It taught that to love Him was happiness--to love Him in others' virtues.
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He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
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When we can't piece together the puzzle of our own lives, remember the best view of a puzzle is from above. Let Him help put you together.
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