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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.
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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The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses.
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Thy dangerous glances make women of men new-born, we are melting into nature again.
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The universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest.
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I always seem to suffer some loss of faith on entering cities.
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Calmness is always godlike.
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You cannot give anything to a magnanimous person. After you have served him, he at once puts you in debt by his magnanimity.
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Every man is the inlet and may become the outlet of all there is in God.
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We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.
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The philosophy of waiting is sustained by all the oracles of the universe.
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A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled, the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates as fast as the sun breeds clouds.
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You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.
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Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is. The first time you hear it, it sounds rather as if copied out of some invisible tablet in the Eternal mind than as if arbitrarily composed by the poet.
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We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them
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Not in his goals but in his transitions, man is great.
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Successful is the person who has lived well, laughed often and loved much, who has gained the respect of children, who leaves the world better than they found it, who has never lacked appreciation for the earth's beauty, who never fails to look for the best in others or give the best of themselves.
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Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is, on so many occasions, of chief importance,--a certain robust and radiant physical health or--shall I say?--great volumes of animal heat.
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Expediency of literature, reason of literature, lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned much is to say on both sides,and, while the fight waxes hot, thou, dearest scholar, stick to thy foolish task, add a line every hour, and between whiles add a line.
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Fashion understands itself good-breeding and personal superiority of whatever country readily fraternize with those of every other. The chiefs of savage tribes have distinguished themselves in London and Paris, by the purity of their tournure.
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When a dog is chasing after you, whistle for him.
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