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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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We expect a great man to be a good reader.
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Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.
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Though I am weak, yet God, when prayed, Cannot withhold his conquering aid.
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Instead of making Christianity a vehicle of truth, you make truth only a horse for Christianity.
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The pulpit and the press have many commonplaces denouncing the thirst for wealth, but if men should take these moralists at their word, and leave off aiming to be rich, the moralists would rush to rekindle at all hazards this love of power in the people, lest civilization should be undone.
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It is not the irregular hours or irregular diet that makes the romantic life.
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Every man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market cart into a chariot of the sun.
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Pay no heed to the average photographer's remarks upon flat and weak negatives. Probably he is flat, weak, stale, and unprofitable your negative may be first-rate, and probably is if he does not approve of it.
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Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong
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Sorrow makes us all children again.
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A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill.
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We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary talent wasa youthful effervescence which we have now lost.
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Knowledge is the antidote to fear,- Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids.
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One thing is forever good That one thing is Success.
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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.
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The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance.
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Why should the way I feel depend on the thoughts in someone else's head?
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Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.
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There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
