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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.
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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Discontent is want of self-reliance it is infirmity of will.
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Every individual man has a bias which he must obey, and...it is only as he feels and obeys this that he rightly develops and attains his legitimate power in the world. It is his magnetic needle, which points always in one direction to his proper path.... He is never happy nor strong until he finds it, keeps it.
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Most people, who have quit smoking, have had at least one unsuccessful try in the past. It is not important how many times you try to quit. The only important thing is, that eventually you stay quit
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The motive of science was the extension of man, on all sides, into Nature, till his hands should touch the stars, his eyes see through the earth, his ears understand the language of beast and bird, and the sense of the wind and, through his sympathy, heaven and earth should talk with him. But that is not our science.
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Friendship is an order of nobility from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.
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No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, usages, and arts, of his times shall have no share.
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Great men are sincere.
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When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England, and arriving at its ports with the punctuality of a planet, is a step of man into harmony with nature.
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Happy is the house that shelters a friend.
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It all begins when the soul would have its way with you.
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He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.
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A sleeping child gives me the impression of a traveler in a very far country.
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Why should the way I feel depend on the thoughts in someone else's head?
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Nature is a rag merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations.
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So use all that is called Fortune. Most men gamble with her, and gain all, and lose all, as her wheel rolls. But do thou leave as unlawful these winnings, and deal with Cause and Effect, the Chancellors of God.
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.
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One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.
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Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.
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The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.
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