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Insist on yourself. Never imitate.
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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It is not the irregular hours or irregular diet that makes the romantic life.
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Society is the stage on which manners are shown novels are the literature. Novels are the journal or record of manners and the new importance of these books derives from the fact, that the novelist begins to penetrate the surface, and treat this part of life more worthily.
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Our age is very cheap and intelligible. Unroof any house, and you shall find it. The well-being consists in having a sufficiency of coffee and toast, with a daily newspaper a well glazed parlor, with marbles, mirrors and centre-table and the excitement of a few parties and a few rides in a year.
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He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments - is the rich and royal man.
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Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.
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The State is our neighbors our neighbors are the State.
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The power of a man increases steadily by continuing in one direction.
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Men are lenses through which we read our own minds.
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If a man is at heart just, then in so far is he God the safety of God, the immortality of God, the majesty of God do enter into that man with justice.
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Society cannot do without cultivated men. As soon as the first wants are satisfied, the higher wants become imperative.
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When we can't piece together the puzzle of our own lives, remember the best view of a puzzle is from above. Let Him help put you together.
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Yourself a newborn bard of the Holy Ghost, cast behind you all conformity, and acquaint men at first hand with Deity.
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For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?
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Though your views are in straight antagonism to theirs, assume an identity of sentiment, assume that you are saying precisely thatwhich all think, and in the flow of wit and love roll out your paradoxes in solid column, with not the infirmity of a doubt.
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Let us leave hurry to slaves.
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It is the last lesson of modern science, that the highest simplicity of structure is produced, not by few elements, but by the highest complexity.
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From Washington, proverbially the city of distances, through all its cities, states, and territories, it is a country of beginnings, of projects, of designs, and expectations.
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Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul. What he announces, I must find true in me, or reject and on his word, or as his second, be he who he may, I can accept nothing.
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The secret is the answer to all that has been, all that is, and all that will ever be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you act, you show character if you sit still, you show it if you sleep you show it.
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