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The finest poetry was first experience.
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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One thing is forever good That one thing is Success.
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We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
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The Englishman who has lost his fortune is said to have died of a broken heart.
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Every man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market cart into a chariot of the sun.
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All science is transcendental or else passes away.
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A forte always makes a foible.
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The lord is the peasant that was, The peasant is the lord that shall be.
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As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man, man.
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Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and universal laws which it discloses yet it does not surprise the moral sentiment that was older and awaited expectant these larger insights.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.
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Every man is as lazy as he dares to be.
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To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone.
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What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.
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What we seek we shall find what we flee from flees from us.
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The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity.
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