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Contemporary American psychiatrist It is a happy talent to know how to play.
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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We are always getting ready to live, but never living... The wave moves onward but the particles of which it is composed do not... It cannot be but that at intervals throughout society there are real men intermixed . . . as the carpenter puts one iron bar in his bannister for every five or six wooden ones.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Books are the best of things if well used if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.
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For the resolute and determined, there is time and opportunity.
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I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.
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In our definitions, we grope after the spiritual by describing it as invisible. The true meaning of spiritual is real that law which executes itself, which works without means, and which cannot be conceived as not existing.
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Each man reserves to himself alone the right of being tedious.
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Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
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I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil.
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The greatest genius is the most indebted person.
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I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
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Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.
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The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from.
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What we call results are beginnings.
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The pleasure of eloquence is in greatest part owing often to the stimulus of the occasion which produces it- - to the magic of sympathy, which exalts the feeling of each by radiating on him the feeling of all.
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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Manners are the happy ways of doing things each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.
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Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in. Embark, and the romance quits our vessel, and hangs on every other sail in the horizon.
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No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or if you have slept or if you have head ache or sciatica or leprosy or thunder-stroke, I beseech you, by all angels, to hold your peace and not pollute the morning.
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Nature is upheld by antagonism.
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