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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
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In the moment when you make the least petition to God, though it be but a silent wish that he may approve you, or add one moment to your life,--do you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought? In that act, the soul stands alone with God, and Jesus is no more present to your mind than your brother or your child.
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All science is transcendental or else passes away.
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To believe in luck ... is skepticism.
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The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do.
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How much better when the whole land is a garden, and the people have grown up in the bowers of a paradise.
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Genius has no taste for weaving sand.
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I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.
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Be a gift and a benediction.
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It does not to dwell on dreams and forget to live, but it is equally foolish to ignore the past – never forget.
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Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread.
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The language of the street is always strong.
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[W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out of their human estate.
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This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.
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Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.
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The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
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There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works.
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By the irresistible maturing of the general mind, the Christian traditions have lost their hold.
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Every man has a vocation. The talent is the call.
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Beside all the moral benefit which we may expect from the farmer's profession, when a man enters it considerately, this promised the conquering of the soil, plenty, and beyond this, the adorning of the country with every advantage and ornament which labor, ingenuity, and affection for a man's home, could suggest.
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