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Every sweet has its sour every evil its good.
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
Waldo Emerson
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The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down aspires and not despairs.
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Patience and fortitude conquer all things.
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The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.
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I do not speak with any fondness but the language of coolest history, when I say that Boston commands attention as the town whichwas appointed in the destiny of nations to lead the civilization of North America.
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Meet your failure nobly, and it will not differ from success.
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Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
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Let a man then know his worth and keep things under his feet.
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It is for want of self-culture that the superstition of Travelling, whose idols are Italy, England, Egypt, retains its fascinationfor all educated Americans.
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Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.
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Could Shakespeare give a theory of Shakespeare?
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Find the journey's end in every step.
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We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether... The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.
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As long as any man exists, there is some need of him.
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For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency, because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.
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Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn.
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Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
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God will not make himself manifest to cowards
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But in every constitution some large degree of animal vigor is necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the art.
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Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.
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A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.
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