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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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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible.
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Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous or when they are most luxurious-they are conservatives after dinner.
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Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.
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There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome alwayswe are invited to work.
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We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings. But how great a language to convey such pepper-corn informations!
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We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.
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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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It is the eye which makes the horizon.
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The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it.
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Look out into the July night, and see the broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven, fresh and delicate as the bonfires of the meadow-flies. Yet the powers of numbers cannot compute its enormous age,—lasting as space and time,—embosomed in time and space.
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The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.
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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions.
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Adult males are what their moms designed them.
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The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss of wealth, a loss of friends, seems at the moment unpaid loss, and unpayable. But the sure years reveal the deep remedial force that underlies all facts.
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In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.
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Truth is too simple for us: we do not like those who unmask our illusions.
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The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
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Free should be the scholar - free and brave.
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It is one of the biggest blessing that you can be stupid with your true friends and behave like you shame to do elsewhere
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