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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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Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.
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The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatness, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.
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Pride ruined the angels, Their shame them restores And the joy that is sweetest Lurks in stings of remorse.
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In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity.
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The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day.
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So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth whispers, 'I can.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To give money to a sufferer is only a come-off. It is only a postponement of the real payment, a bribe paid for silence, a creditsystem in which a paper promise to pay answers for the time instead of liquidation. We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man.
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In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.
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Our distrust is very expensive.
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All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.
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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
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I honor health as the first muse, and sleep as the condition of health. Sleep benefits mainly by the sound health it produces incidentally also by dreams, into whose farrago a divine lesson is sometimes slipped.
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It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out, and we are become timorous desponding whimperers. We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other.
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The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wherever the truth is injured, defend it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man should let out all the length of all the reigns should find or make a frank and healthy expression of what force and meaning is in him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each particle is a microcosm, and faithfully renders the likeness of the world.
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