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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
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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This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.
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Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare.
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When a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and the purity of its heart.
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A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes, by his distastes, by the stories he tells, by his gait, by the notion of his eye, by the look of his house, of his chamber for nothing on earth is solitary but every thing hath affinities infinite.
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No man can have society upon his own terms.
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Observe how every truth and every error, each a thought of someone's mind, clothes itself with societies, houses, cities, language, ceremonies, newspapers
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Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.
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We grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall Equal on Sunday in the pew, On Monday in the mall. For what avail the plough or sail, Or land, or life, if freedom fail?
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Man's actions are the picture book of his creeds.
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The house praises the carpenter.
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For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?
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If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more.
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Life itself is ... a sleep within a sleep.
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We love it because it is self dependent, self derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.
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Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go, and is only right admirable when to all its beauty and speed a subserviency to the will, like that of walking, is added.
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When it is dark enough, men see the stars.
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We judge of a man's wisdom by his hope, knowing that the inexhaustibleness of nature is an immortal youth.
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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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I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-borne treasures home.
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Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it it does not unsettle him, or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles it is an act quite easy to be contemplated.
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