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Character is that which can do without success.
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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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
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An action is the perfection and publication of thought. A right action seems to fill the eye, and to be related to all nature.
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In America and Europe, the nomadism is of trade and curiosity.
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Music is the poor man's Parnassus.
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Gold and iron are good To buy iron and gold.
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Chiefly the sea-shore has been the point of departure to knowledge, as to commerce. The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
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Every thing admonishes us how needlessly long life is.
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If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads, just one year afterwards.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I would study, I would know, I would admire forever.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home. We imitate and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind?
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Nature ever faithful is To such as trust her faithfulness.
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Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore it if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.
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The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration.
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He only is a well-made man who has a good determination.
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Heaven is large, and affords space for all modes of love and fortitude.
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The best picture makes us say, I am a painter also.
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No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
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Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.
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To me, however, the question of the times resolved itself into a practical question of the conduct of life. How shall I live? We are incompetent to solve the times. Our geometry cannot span the huge orbits of the prevailing ideas, behold their return, and reconcile their opposition. We can only obey our own polarity.
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Neither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair.
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