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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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Now every one must do after his kind, be he asp or angel, and these must.
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In a world of infinite choice people are struggling to figure out what to do.
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Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.
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The unbelief of the age is attested by the loud condemnation of trifles.
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If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience.
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Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lose yourself in nature and find peace
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God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings, and, with each, therefore, a new idea, new inventions, and new applications.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the morning a man walks with his whole body in the evening, only with his legs. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks Greek architecture is the perfect flowering of geometry.
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The scholar may lose himself in schools, in words, and become a pedant but when he comprehends his duties, he above all men is arealist, and converses with things.
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Necessity does everything well.
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Our books approach very slowly the things we most wish to know.
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The action of the soul is oftener in that which is felt and left unsaid than in that which is said in any conversation. It broods over every society, and men unconsciously seek for it in each other.
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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions.
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I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To help the young soul, to add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame to redeem defeat by new thought and firm action, this, though not easy, is the work of divine men.
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He only is rich who owns the day.
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The Times are the masquerade of the eternities trivial to the dull, tokens of noble and majestic agents to the wise the receptacle in which the Past leaves its history the quarry out of which the genius of today is building up the Future.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins
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