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Every word was once a poem.
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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Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape, and bodily exercise on the mind.
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All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effiminated by position of nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.
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A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.
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A man is reputed to have thought and eloquence he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his uncle. They accuse his silence with as much reason as they would blame the insignificance of a dial in the shade. In the sun it will mark the hour. Among those who enjoy his thought, he will regain his tongue.
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The history of reform is always identical it is the comparison of the idea with the fact. Our modes of living are not agreeable to our imagination. We suspect they are unworthy. We arraign our daily employments.
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Labor is God's education.
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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.
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Each man reserves to himself alone the right of being tedious.
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The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.
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The whole of what we know is a system of compensation. Every defect in one manner is made up in another. Every suffering is rewarded every sacrifice is made up every debt is paid.
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Well, the world has a million writers. One would think, then, that good thought would be as familiar as air and water, and the gifts of each new hour would exclude the last. Yet we can count all our good books nay, I remember any beautiful verse for twenty years.
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The connection between our knowledge and the abyss of being is still real, and the explication must be not less magnificent.
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Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry, she carries them.
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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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We are not free to use today, or to promise tomorrow, because we are already mortgaged to yesterday.
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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
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God will not make himself manifest to cowards
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The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.
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Between cultivated minds the first interview is the best.
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