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My life should be unique it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.
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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Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.
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When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
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The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.
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Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the sufferer if not, attend your own work, and already the evil begins to be repaired.
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The laws of light and of heat translate each other-so do the laws of sound and colour and so galvanism, electricity and magnetism are varied forms of this selfsame energy.
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The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.
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Each particle is a microcosm, and faithfully renders the likeness of the world.
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Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.
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Knowledge is the antidote to fear. [especially as fear often stands for false evidence appearing real!]
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Men consort in camp and town But the poet dwells alone.
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I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant. Now we reckon them as bank-days, by some debt which is to be paid us, or which we are to pay, or some pleasure we are to taste.
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Those who have ruled human destinies, like planets, for thousands of years, were not handsome men.
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We learn that God IS that he is in me and that all things are shadows of him.
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Find the journey's end in every step.
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Any relation to the land, the habit of tilling it, or mining it, or even hunting on it, generates the feeling of patriotism. He who keeps shop on it, or he who merely uses it as a support to his desk and ledger, or to his manufactory, values it less.
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I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.
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Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
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Though many painters and sculptors talk glibly of going in for photography, you will find that very few of them can ever make a picture by photography they lack the science, technical knowledge, and above all the practice. Most people think they can play tennis, shoot, write novels, and photograph as well as any other person - until they try
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Literature is eavesdropping.
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