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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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This very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.
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But a public oration is an escapade, a non-committal, an apology, a gag, and not a communication, not a speech, not a man.
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How much better when the whole land is a garden, and the people have grown up in the bowers of a paradise.
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The soul refuses limits and always affirms an optimism, never a pessimism.
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The passive master lent his hand, To the vast Soul which o'er him planned.
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Everything that is popular, it has been said, deserves the attention of philosophers: and this is for the obvious reason, that although it may not be of any worth in itself, yet it characterizes the people.
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Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom.
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If the East loves infinity, the West delights in boundaries.
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Knowledge is the antidote to fear
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There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we must obey.
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Every man is grave alone.
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If we could have any security against moods! If the profoundest prophet could be holden to his words, and the hearer who is readyto sell all and join the crusade, could have any certificate that to-morrow his prophet shall not unsay his testimony!
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It is an esoteric doctrine of society, that a little wickedness is good to make muscle as if conscience were not good for hands and legs.
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We are the prisoners of ideas. They catch us up for moments into their heaven, and so fully engage us, that we take no thought forthe morrow, gaze like children, without an effort to make them our own.
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Man's actions are the picture book of his creeds.
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Eyes...They speak all languages.
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See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.
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We pass for what we are.
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The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic importance of their contents to the constant mind of man.
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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
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