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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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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in. Embark, and the romance quits our vessel, and hangs on every other sail in the horizon.
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The powers of the Soul are commensurate with its needs.
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My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.
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In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part.
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Life is a series of surprises.
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It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.
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The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.
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Life is an ecstasy. Life is sweet as nitrous oxide.
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The soul is the perceiver and the revealer of truth.
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Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.
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I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and grow up slaves.
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All reform aims, in some one particular, to let the soul have its way through us in other words, to engage us to obey.
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In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.
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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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