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Knowledge is the antidote to fear
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
Waldo Emerson
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The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
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Power is the first good.
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The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome.
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Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.
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As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions.
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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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A mob is a society obodies, voluntarily bereaving themselves oreason, and traversing its work. The mob is man, voluntarily descending to the nature othe beast. Its fit hour oactivity is night its actions are insane, like its whole constitution.
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The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions.
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Is it not better to intimate our astonishment as we pass through this world if it be only for a moment ere we are swallowed up in the yeast of the abyss? I will lift up my hands and say Kosmos.
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How much of human life is lost in waiting.
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Rings and other jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself.
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Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody.
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Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.
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Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools. A wise man will see that Aristotle platonizes.
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When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.
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The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must be writ is musty the next day.
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There is really no insurmountable barrier save your own inherent weakness of purpose.
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There is no architect Can build as the Muse can She is skilful to select Materials for her plan.
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I unsettle all things.
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It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated.
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