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Genius always finds itself a century too early.
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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Now every one must do after his kind, be he asp or angel, and these must.
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Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.
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I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success. One adores public opinion, the other, private opinion one, fame, the other, desert one, feats, the other, humility one, lucre, the other, love one, monopoly, and the other, hospitality of mind.
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One thing is forever good That one thing is Success.
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Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. What they have done commits and enforces them to do the same again. The first act, which was to be an experiment, becomes a sacrament.
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The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. Every influx of atheism, of skepticism, is thus made useful as a mercury pill assaulting and removing a diseased religion, and making way for truth.
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Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom.
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Thy dangerous glances make women of men new-born, we are melting into nature again.
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The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite.
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A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant.
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Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.
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What is civilization? I answer, the power of good women.
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We are as much strangers in nature, as we are aliens from God. We do not understand the notes of birds. The fox and the deer run away from us the bear and tiger rend us. We do not know the uses of more than a few plants, as corn and the apple, the potato and the vine. Is not the landscape, every glimpse of which hath a grandeur, a face of him?
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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
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The lover is made happier by his love than the object of his affection.
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But what help from these fineries or pedantries? What help from thought? Life is not dialectics. We, I think, in these times, have had lessons enough of the futility of criticism.
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Every natural action is graceful.
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Most people, who have quit smoking, have had at least one unsuccessful try in the past. It is not important how many times you try to quit. The only important thing is, that eventually you stay quit
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Everything in nature goes by law, and not by luck.
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Man's actions are the picture book of his creeds.
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