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Imitation cannot go above its model.
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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Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.
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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
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Man's actions are the picture book of his creeds.
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The mark of a man of the world is absence of pretension.
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Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.
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There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.
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The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. Nature never wears a mean appearance.
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Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may well call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate.
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In the death of my son, now more than two years ago, I seem to have lost a beautiful estate,--no more. I cannot get it nearer to me.
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That man is idle who can do something better.
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Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man.
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Love should make joy but our benevolence is unhappy. Our Sunday-schools, and churches, and pauper-societies are yokes to the neck. We pain ourselves to please nobody.
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I honor health as the first Muse.
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A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
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A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you are not yourself. Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason. Know this to be the enemy: it is anger, born of desire.
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Ever fresh the broad creation, A divine improvisation, From the heart of God proceeds, A single will, a million deeds.
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Perhaps love is only the highest symbol of friendship, as all other things seem symbols of love.
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Obedience alone gives the right to command.
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Never read any book that is not a year old.
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