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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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Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
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In spite of warnings, change rarely occurs until the status quo becomes more painful than change. People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
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Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.
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Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is, on so many occasions, of chief importance,--a certain robust and radiant physical health or--shall I say?--great volumes of animal heat.
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Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.
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Society, to be sure, does not like this very well it saith, Whoso goes to walk alone, accuses the whole world he declares all to be unfit to be his companions it is very uncivil, nay, insulting Society will retaliate.
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A little praise goes a great ways.
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Luck is just another word for tenacity of purpose.
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Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?
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We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.
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Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
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The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments.
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Speak the affirmative emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject.
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The interminable forests should become graceful parks, for use and delight.
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A man in the view of absolute goodness, adores, with total humility. Every step downward, is a step upward. The man who renounceshimself, comes to himself.
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A state of war or anarchy, in which law has little force, is so far valuable, that it puts every man on trial. The man of principle is known as such, and even in the fury of faction is respected.
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Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.
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Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.
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Duty grows everywhere--like children, like grass.
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The history of reform is always identical it is the comparison of the idea with the fact. Our modes of living are not agreeable to our imagination. We suspect they are unworthy. We arraign our daily employments.
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