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What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of truth and good?
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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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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A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.
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I must feel pride in my friend's accomplishments as if they were mine,--and a property in his virtues. I feel as warmly when he ispraised, as the lover when he hears applause of his engaged maiden.
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People who know how to act are never preachers.
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To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of prudence, in the plenitude of its energy and power to repair the harms it may suffer. The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will.
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What is the hardest task in the world? To think.
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There are two laws discreteNot reconciled,Law for man, and law for thing.
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The narrow sectarian cannot read astronomy with impunity. The creeds of his church shrivel like dried leaves at the door of the observatory.
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Not in his goals but in his transitions, man is great.
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Every man is an infinitely repelling orb, and holds his individual being on that condition.
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Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
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Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
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The only reward of virtue is virtue.
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Lawyers are a prudent race though not very fond of liberty.
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Skepticism is slow suicide.
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Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.
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Literature is eavesdropping.
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There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.
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It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters, that whoever can speak can sing. So, probably, every man is eloquent once in his life. Our temperaments differ in capacity of heat, or
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Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.
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