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Doing well is a result of doing good.
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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The private life of one man shall be a more illustrious monarchy,--more formidable to its enemy, more sweet and serene in its influence to its friend, than any kingdom in history. For a man, rightly viewed, comprehendeth the particular natures of all men.
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To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.
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Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief in denying them.
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Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.
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After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk.
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Life is girt all round with a zodiac of sciences, the contributions of men who have perished to add their point of light to our sky. ... These road-makers on every hand enrich us. We must extend the area of life and multiply our relations. We are as much gainers by finding a property in the old earth as by acquiring a new planet.
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Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.
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A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude.
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The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones they are what they are they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose it is perfect in every moment of its existence.
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Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.
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The hero is suffered to be himself.
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The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power--the gentleman.
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Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. The mind does not create what it perceives, anymore than the eye creates the rose.
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Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart!-it seems to say,-there is victory yet for all justice and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.
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Instead of making Christianity a vehicle of truth, you make truth only a horse for Christianity.
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A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.
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There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men.
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If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
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A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation.
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Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul
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