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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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Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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It now appears that the negro race is, more than any other, susceptible of rapid civilization. The emancipation is observed, in the islands, to have wrought for the negro a benefit as sudden as when a thermometer is brought out of the shade into the sun. It has given him eyes and ears.
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To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy is to set your own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.
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An answer in words is delusive it is really no answer to the questions you ask.
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Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands.
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The squirrel hoards nuts and the bee gathers honey, without knowing what they do, and they are thus provided for without selfishness or disgrace.
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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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Are you not scared by seeing that the gypsies are more attractive to us than the apostles?
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The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.
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Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself.
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a good reader makes a good book
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The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.
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Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.
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For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency, because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.
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Let us unlearn our wisdom of the world. Let us lie low in the Lord's power, and learn that truth alone makes rich and great.
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What is it men love in Genius, but its infinite hope, which degrades all it has done? Genius counts all its miracles poor and short. Its own idea it never executed.
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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
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This very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.
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Power educates the potentate.
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We read often with as much talent as we write.
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There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.
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