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Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.
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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No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.
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What is the end of human life? It is not, believe me, the chief end of man that he should make a fortune and beget children whose end is likewise to make a fortune, but it is, in few words, that he should explore himself.
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Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.
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I have heard that stiff people lose something of their awkwardness under high ceilings, and in spacious halls. I think, sculptureand painting have an effect to teach us manners, and abolish hurry.
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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.
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Every man believes he has a greater possibility.
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Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim.
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Good criticism is very rare and always precious.
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Where there is no vision a people perish.
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Life is in short cycles or periods we are quickly tired, but we have rapid rallies. A man is spent by his work, starved, prostrate he will not lift his hand to save his life he can never think more. He sinks into deep sleep and wakes with renewed youth, with hope, courage, fertile in resources, and keen for daring adventure.
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Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do, instead of converting it into the obedient spiracle ofyour character and aims.
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When the literary class betray a destitution of faith, it is not strange that society should be disheartened and sensualized by unbelief.
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Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.
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A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.
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The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic importance of their contents to the constant mind of man.
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We are imprisoned in life in the company of persons powerfully unlike us.
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Who loses a day loses life.
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The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, --/ Never read a book that is not a year old./ Never read any but the famed books./ Never read any but what you like.
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Do not spill thy soul in running hither and yon, grieving over the mistakes and the vices of others. The one person whom it is most necessary to reform is yourself.
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