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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
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Desire is possibility seeking expression.
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Life is too short to waste.
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Senators and presidents have climbed so high with pain enough, not because they think the place specially agreeable, but as an apology for real worth, and to vindicate their manhood in our eyes. This conspicuous chair is their compensation to themselves for being of a poor, cold, hard nature.
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None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed.
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The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine. The simplicity of nature is not that which may be easily read but is inexhaustible. The last analysis can no wise be made.
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Honor and fortune exist for him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great, always feels himself in the presence of high causes.
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We learn that God IS that he is in me and that all things are shadows of him.
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I honor health as the first muse, and sleep as the condition of health. Sleep benefits mainly by the sound health it produces incidentally also by dreams, into whose farrago a divine lesson is sometimes slipped.
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No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions.
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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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Man was born to be rich, or to inevitably grow rich, by the use of his faculties: by the union of thought with nature.
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If a man carefully examine his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead. Such a creature is probably immortal.
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Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
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Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
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No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.
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If we walk in the woods, we must feed mosquitoes.
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My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.
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