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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
R. W. Emerson
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That man is idle who can do something better.
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We are disgusted by gossip yet it is of importance to keep the angels in their proprieties.
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Among the multitude of scholars and authors, we feel no hallowing presence we are sensible of a knack and skill rather than of inspiration they have a light, and know not whence it comes, and call it their own their talent is some exaggerated faculty, some overgrown member, so that their strength is a disease.
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Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
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No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton, Laplace, are not new men, or a new kind of men, but that Thales, Anaximenes, Hipparchus, Empodocles, Aristorchus, Pythagorus, Oenipodes, had anticipated them.
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In this great society wide lying around us, a critical analysis would find very few spontaneous actions. It is almost all custom and gross sense.
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Of lower states, of acts of routine and sense, we can tell somewhat but the masterpieces of God, the total growths and universalmovements of the soul, he hideth they are incalculable. I can know that truth is divine and helpful but how it shall help me I can have no guess, for so to be is the sole inlet of so to know.
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Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a great city, and no man knows what is safe, or where it will end.
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The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.
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The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.
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Let us advance on Chaos and the Dark
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That which builds is better than that which is built.
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But I shall hear without pain, that I play the courtier very ill, and talk of that which I do not well understand.
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We never touch but at points.
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Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.
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It is better to suffer injustice than to do it.
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Art is a jealous mistress and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.
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The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
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The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.
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How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!
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