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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
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[D]ivine Providence... keeps the universe open in every direction to the soul.
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There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.
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Be an opener of doors
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So in writing, there is always a right word, and every other than that is wrong. There is no beauty in words except in their collocation. The effect of a fanciful word misplaced, is like that of a horn of exquisite polish growing on a human head.
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The shot heard round the world.
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No man can have society upon his own terms.
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A self-denial, no less austere than the saint's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forgo all things for that,and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented.
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Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it
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Want is a growing giant whom the coat of have was never large enough to cover.
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Thou art to me a delicious torment.
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All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world.
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A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat self-control is the rule.
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The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.
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What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.
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The House ...She lays her beams in music, In music everyone, To the cadence of the whirling world Which dances around the sun- That so they shall not be displaced By lapses or by wars, But for the love of happy souls Outlive the newest stars.
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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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He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread
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Though I am weak, yet God, when prayed, Cannot withhold his conquering aid.
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To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy is to set your own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.
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Life is unnecessarily long. Moments of insight, of fine personal relation, a smile, a glance,--what ample borrowers of eternity they are!
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