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God will not make himself manifest to cowards
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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The eloquence of one stimulates all the rest, some up to the speaking-point, and all others to a degree that makes them good receivers and conductors, and they avenge themselves for their enforced silence by increased loquacity on their return.
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It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book.
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When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.
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No institution will be better than the institutor.
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Many a reformer perishes in his removal of rubbish,--and that makes the offensiveness of the class. They are partial they are notequal to the work they pretend. They lose their way in the assault on the kingdom of darkness, they expend all their energy on some accidental evil, and lose their sanity and power of benefit.
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All necessary truth is its own evidence.
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No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.
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Education should be as broad as man.
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To me, however, the question of the times resolved itself into a practical question of the conduct of life. How shall I live? We are incompetent to solve the times. Our geometry cannot span the huge orbits of the prevailing ideas, behold their return, and reconcile their opposition. We can only obey our own polarity.
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He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.
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Revolutions go not backward.
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Life is a boundless privilege, and when you pay for your ticket, and get into the car, you have no guess what good company you shall find there.
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Our opinions of the world, are confessions of character.
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Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.
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Those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man, than anything which he said.
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We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
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Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
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The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we may move it....we see literature best from the midst of wild nature, or from the din of affairs, or from a high religion. The field cannot be well seen from within the field.
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The world is nothing, the man is all in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason it is for you to know all, it is for you to dare all.
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What is the hardest task in the world? To think.
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