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God will not have his work made manifest by cowards
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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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions.
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He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests he gives an independent, genuine verdict. You must court him: he does not court you. But the man is, as it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness.
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God has delegated himself to a million deputies.
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The Soul rules over matter. Matter may pass away like a mote in the sunbeam, may be absorbed into the immensity of God, as a mistis absorbed into the heat of the Sun--but the soul is the kingdom of God, the abode of love, of truth, of virtue.
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But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on our population where all the millions read and write ? It is the joy of nations that man can communicate all his thoughts, discoveries and virtues to records that may last for centuries.
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Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply,- 'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.
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If you cannot be free be as free as you can.
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What is the hardest task in the world? To think.
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The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.
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The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life.
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Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.
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When a dog is chasing after you, whistle for him.
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Genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
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Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.
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Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet.
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Thou art to me a delicious torment.
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To believe in luck ... is skepticism.
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