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What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.
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
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If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.
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But I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle, I leave the village politics and personalities, yes, and the world of villages and personalities behind, and pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight, too bright almost for spotted man to enter without novitiate and probation.
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The desire of gold is not for gold. It is not the love of much wheat, and wool and household stuff. It is the means of freedom and benefit.
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Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.
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Do your work, but do your thing.
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Meet your failure nobly, and it will not differ from success.
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It all begins when the soul would have its way with you.
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Man's life is a progress, not a station.
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The Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Greek, Latin, and Mathematics, it had quite left these shells high on the beach, and was creating and feeding other matters [science] at other ends of the world.
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We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves.
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We live in succession, in division, in parts and particles. Meantime, within man, is the soul of the whole the wise silence the universal beauty to which every part and particle is equally related the eternal One.
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The hero is he who is immovably centered.
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When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something he has been put on his wits, on his manhood he has gained facts learns his ignorance is cured of the insanity of conceit has got moderation and real skill.
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Those who have ruled human destinies, like planets, for thousands of years, were not handsome men.
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The world is full of judgment-days, and into every assembly that a man enters, in every action he attempts, he is gauged and stamped.
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Man moves in all modes, by legs of horses, by wings of winds, by steam, by gas of balloon, by electricity, and stands on tiptoe threatening to hunt the eagle in his own element.
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The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.
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Solitary converse with nature for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, and October woods!
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Every advantage has its tax.
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Power and speed be hands and feet.
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