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Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.
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
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The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.
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Life is in short cycles or periods we are quickly tired, but we have rapid rallies. A man is spent by his work, starved, prostrate he will not lift his hand to save his life he can never think more. He sinks into deep sleep and wakes with renewed youth, with hope, courage, fertile in resources, and keen for daring adventure.
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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
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Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.
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The secret of success in education is respecting the students.
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The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.
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We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
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I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly disparity between age and youth.
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He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that.
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The secret of the world is the tie between person and event. Person makes event and event person.
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In these divine pleasures permitted to me of walks in the June night under moon and stars, I can put my life as a fact before me and stand aloof from its honor and shame.
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America is a country of young men.
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We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves.
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Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.
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I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
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