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We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
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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R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Obedience alone gives the right to command.
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Come out of the azure. Love the day. Do not leave the sky out of your landscape.
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Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare.
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All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.
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For the world was built in order around the atoms march in tune Rhyme the pipe, and Time the warder, The sun obeys them, and the moon.
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What you persist in doing gets easier. The task hasn't changed, but your ability to do it has increased.
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Get Health. No labor, effort nor exercise that can gain it must be grudged.
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I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.
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Wherever the truth is injured, defend it.
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Though we love goodness and not stealing, yet also we love freedom and not preaching.
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Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.
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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.
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We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
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The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things, with commerce, government, church, marriage, and so with the history of every man's bread, and the ways by which he is to come by it.
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