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People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.
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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Far or forgot to me is near Shadow and sunlight are the same The vanished gods to me appear And one to me are shame and fame.They reckon ill who leave me out When me they fly, I am the wings I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.
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As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdom which cannot help itself.
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Sometimes we receive the power to say yes to life. Then peace enters us and makes us whole.
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The idea of God ends in a paltry Methodist meeting-house.
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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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Every really able man, in whatever direction he works - a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a poet, a painter - if you talk sincerely with him, considers his work, however much admired, as far short of what it should be. What is this Better, this flying Ideal, but the perpetual promise of his Creator?
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I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil.
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We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man, man.
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I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world. With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations of nature.
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Poverty demoralizes. A man in debt is so far a slave and Wall-street thinks it easy for a millionaire to be a man of his word, aman of honor, but, that, in failing circumstances, no man can be relied on to keep his integrity.
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It is bad enough that our geniuses cannot do anything useful, but it is worse that no man is fit for society who has fine traits.He is admired at a distance, but he cannot come near without appearing a cripple.
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People who know how to act are never preachers.
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As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action.
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A divine person is the prophecy of the mind a friend is the hope of the heart.
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