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Not in his goals but in his transitions, man is great.
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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My angel,-his name is Freedom,- Choose him to be your king He shall cut pathways east and west, And fend you with his wing.
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The household is a school of power. There, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life.
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Words are finite organs of the infinite mind. They cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth. They break, chop, and impoverish it.
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All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.
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Take the place and attitude to which you see your unquestionable right, and all men acquiesce.
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The boxer's ring is the enjoyment of the part of society whose animal nature alone has been developed.
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Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology.
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Calmness is always godlike.
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Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.
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I will not live out of me I will not see with others' eyes My good is good, my evil ill I would be free.
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Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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The end of being is to know and if you say, the end of knowledge is action,-why, yes, but the end of that action again, is knowledge.
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Nature hates calculators.
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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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The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.
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