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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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Do your thing, and I shall know you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Headwinds are sore vexations and the more passengers the sorer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Napoleon said of Massena, that he was not himself until the battle began to go against him then, when the dead began to fall in ranks around him, awoke his powers of combination, and he put on terror and victory as a robe.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
So in accepting the leading of the sentiments, it is not what we believe concerning the immortality of the soul, or the like, but the universal impulse to believe, that is the material circumstance, and is the principal fact in this history of the globe.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hidden away in the inner nature of the real man is the law of his life, and someday he will discover it and consciously make use of it. He will heal himself, make himself happy and prosperous, and life in an entirely different world. For he will have discovered that life is from within and not from without.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I give you joy of your free and brave thought. I have great joy in it. I find incomparable things said incomparably well, as they must be. I find the courage of treatment which so delights us, and which large perception only can inspire.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
And last of all, high over thought, in the world of morals, Fate appears as vindicator, levelling the high, lifting the low, requiring justice in man, and always striking soon or late when justice is not done. What is useful will last, what is hurtful will sink.
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Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the sufferer if not, attend your own work, and already the evil begins to be repaired.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence, and giving to every one its own name and not another's, thereby rejoicing the intellect, which delights in detachment or boundary.
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Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every word was once a poem. Every new relation is a new word.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sorrow makes us all children again.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a tendency in things to right themselves, and the war or revolution or bankruptcy that shatters rotten system, allows things to take a new and natural order.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Genius is saying what is in your heart, because it's in everyone's heart.
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