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The ancestor of every action is a thought.
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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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
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What is there of the divine in a load of brick? What ... in a barber shop? ... Much. All.
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The common experience is, that the man fits himself as well as he can to the customary details of that work or trade he falls into, and tends it as a dog turns a spit. Then he is part of the machine he moves the man is lost.
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The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men.
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Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
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And truly it demands something god like in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity, and has ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster. High be his heart, faithful his will, clear his sight, that he may in good earnest be doctrine, society, law, to himself, that a simple purpose may be to him as strong as iron necessity is to others!
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If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it at any rate, brag.
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Manners are the happy ways of doing things each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.
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Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman - repose in energy. The Greek battle pieces are calm the heroes, in whatever violent actions engaged, retain a serene aspect.
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Every man is grave alone.
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Solitude is naught and society is naught. Alternate them and the good of each is seen.
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In the moment when you make the least petition to God, though it be but a silent wish that he may approve you, or add one moment to your life,--do you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought? In that act, the soul stands alone with God, and Jesus is no more present to your mind than your brother or your child.
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We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
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Speak the affirmative emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject.
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Don't set out to teach theism from your natural history... You spoil both.
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Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes what a satire this is on government.
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The Oversoul is before Time, and Time, Father of all else, is one of his children.
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Whatever appeals to the imagination, by transcending the ordinary limits of human ability, wonderfully encourages and liberates us.
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A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him.
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