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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.
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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What school, college, or lecture bring men depends on what men bring to carry it home in.
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The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.
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Yet some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise, and wherever the vein of thought reaches down into the profound, there is no danger from vanity. Solemn friends will warn them of the danger of the head's being turned by the flourish of trumpets, but they can afford to smile.
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Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened then we behold them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream.
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A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.
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O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.
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What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, and yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.
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I unsettle all things.
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Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody.
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It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself.
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The world is the perennial miracle which the soul worketh.
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The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
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