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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
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A gentleman makes no noise a lady is serene.
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If the gatherer gathers too-much, Nature takes out of the man what she puts into his chest swells the estate, but kills the owner. Nature hates, monopolies and exceptions.
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What a new face courage puts on everything!
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When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence.
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If we follow the truth, it will bring us out safe at last.
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Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts.
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Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
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But I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle, I leave the village politics and personalities, yes, and the world of villages and personalities behind, and pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight, too bright almost for spotted man to enter without novitiate and probation.
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'Well,' said Red Jacket [to someone complaining that he had not enough time], 'I suppose you have all there is.'
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All reform aims, in some one particular, to let the soul have its way through us in other words, to engage us to obey.
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Great men exist that there might be greater men.
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The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.
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Idealism sees the world in God. It beholds the whole circle of persons and things, of actions and events, of country and religion,not as painfully accumulated, atom after atom, act after act, in an aged creeping Past, but as one vast picture, which God paints on the instant eternity, for the contemplation of the soul.
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A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.
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Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.
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The Buddhist, who thanks no man, who says Do not flatter your benefactors, but who, in his conviction that every good deed can by no possibility escape its reward, will not deceive the benefactor by pretending that he has done more than he should, is a Transcendentalist.
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Therefore is nature ever the ally of Religion: lends her all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment.
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Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.
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Every man is a new method.
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A man in pursuit of greatness feels no little wants.
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