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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
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Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.
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The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
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Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go, and is only right admirable when to all its beauty and speed a subserviency to the will, like that of walking, is added.
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The crime which bankrupts men and nations is that of turning aside from one's main purpose to serve a job here and there.
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On bravely through the sunshine and the showers! Time hath his work to do, and we have ours.
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The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses with heat puts whole drawing-rooms to flight. If you wish to be loved, love measure.
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Really, all things and persons are related to us, but according to our nature, they act on us not at once, but in succession, andwe are made aware of their presence one at a time. All persons, all things which we have known, are here present, and many more than we see the world is full.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach that nature's dice are always loaded that in her heaps and rubbish are concealed sure and useful results.
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The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.
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I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to go to church no more.
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Marriage (in what is called the spiritual world) is impossible, because of the inequality between every subject and every object.
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An answer in words is delusive it is really no answer to the questions you ask.
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Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities.
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The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him.
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The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatness, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.
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To be great is to be misunderstood.
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Character is always known. Thefts never enrich alms never impoverish murder will speak out of stone walls.
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Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul. What he announces, I must find true in me, or reject and on his word, or as his second, be he who he may, I can accept nothing.
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It is always a practical difficulty with clubs to regulate the laws of election so as to exclude peremptorily every social nuisance. Nobody wishes bad manners. We must have loyalty and character.
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