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Luck is just another word for tenacity of purpose.
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
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Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened then we behold them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream.
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Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do, instead of converting it into the obedient spiracle ofyour character and aims.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Activity is contagious.
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A Judge may be a farmer but he is not to geld his own pigs.
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Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquillity that religion is powerless to bestow.
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No nation has produced anything like his equal. There is no quality in the human mind, there is no class of topics, there is no region of thought, in which he has not soared or descended, and none in which he has not said the commanding word.
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It is said, no man can write but one book and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression on all his performances.
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These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a god- like ease and power.
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The wings of Time are black and white, Pied with morning and with night.
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Many a profound genius, I suppose, who fills the world with fame of his exploding renowned errors, is yet everyday posed and baffled by trivial questions at his own supper table.
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The Roman rule was, to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing. The old English rule was, All summer in the field, and all winter in the study. And it seems as if a man should learn to plant, or to fish, or to hunt, that he might secure his subsistence at all events, and not be painful to his friends and fellow men.
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Of Nature itself upon the soul the sunrise, the haze of autumn, the winter starlight seem interlocutors the prevailing sense is that of an exposition in poetry a high discourse, the voice of the speaker seems to breathe as much from the landscape as from his own breast it is Nature communing with the seer.
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Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.
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Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the law-giver is before the law-receiver.
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If we could have any security against moods! If the profoundest prophet could be holden to his words, and the hearer who is readyto sell all and join the crusade, could have any certificate that to-morrow his prophet shall not unsay his testimony!
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A great mind is a good sailor, as a great heart is.
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The secret of the world is the tie between person and event. Person makes event and event person.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The religion which is to guide and fulfill the present and coming ages, whatever else it be, must be intellectual. The scientific mind must have a faith which is science.
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What is addressed to us for contemplation does not threaten us, but makes us intellectual beings.
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