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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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R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature.
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Man's actions are the picture book of his creeds.
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Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.
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Revolutions go not backward.
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That which dominates our imagination and our thoughts will determine our life and character.
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Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.
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And so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance.
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The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy. It is as real a loss that others should be low, as that we should be low for we musthave a society.
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The city is recruited from the country.
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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.
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He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard.
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Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.
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The Gods we worship write their names on our faces be sure of that. And a man will worship something ... That which dominates will determine his life and character. Therefore it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.
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Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty,--familiarity with danger enabling him to estimate the danger. He sees how much is the risk, and is not afflicted with imagination knows practically Marshal Saxe's rule, that every soldier killed costs the enemy his weight in lead.
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These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.
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To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul. A true conversion, a true Christ, is now, as always, to be madeby the reception of beautiful sentiments.
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The finest people marry the two sexes in their own person.
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The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.
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We are always getting ready to live but never living.
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Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.
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