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Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up
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 essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.
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Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.
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Five minutes of today are worth as much to me, as five minutes in the next millennium. Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.
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We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.
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Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness. It taught that to love Him was happiness--to love Him in others' virtues.
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We fancy men are individuals so are pumpkins but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.
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The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.
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I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make that man another you. One's enough.
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The Bhagavad-Gita is an empire of thought and in its philosophical teachings Krishna has all the attributes of the full-fledged montheistic deity and at the same time the attributes of the Upanisadic absolute.
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In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.
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Skepticism is slow suicide.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. We quote not only books and proverbs, but arts, sciences, religion, customs, and laws nay, we quote temples and houses, tables and chairs, by imitation.
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Skepticism? Yes, but a saint is a skeptic once in twenty-four hours.
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As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.
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I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world. With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations of nature.
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In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Power and speed be hands and feet.
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In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
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