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We acquire the strength we have overcome.
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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Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere.
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There are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine egotists. It is a disease that, like influenza, falls on all constitutions. In the distemper known to physicians as chorea, the patient sometimes turns round, and continues to spin slowly in one spot. Is egotism a metaphysical varioloid of this malady?
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The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
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Calmness is always godlike.
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When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.
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Nature avenges herself speedily on the hard pedantry that would chain her waves. She is no literalist. Every thing must be taken genially, and we must be at the top of our condition, to understand any thing rightly.
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Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.
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A mob is a society obodies, voluntarily bereaving themselves oreason, and traversing its work. The mob is man, voluntarily descending to the nature othe beast. Its fit hour oactivity is night its actions are insane, like its whole constitution.
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Thus is man made equal to every event. He can face danger for the right. A poor, tender, painful body, he can run into flame or bullets or pestilence, with duty for his guide.
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And, in fine, the ancient precept, Know thyself, and the modern precept, Study nature, become at last one maxim.
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The need for a rational consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.
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Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.
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I am so much a Unitarian as this: that I believe the human mind can admit but one God, and that every effort to pay religious homage to more than one being goes to take away all right ideas.
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