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No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.
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
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In England every man you meet is some man's son in America, he may be some man's father.
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Idealism sees the world in God. It beholds the whole circle of persons and things, of actions and events, of country and religion,not as painfully accumulated, atom after atom, act after act, in an aged creeping Past, but as one vast picture, which God paints on the instant eternity, for the contemplation of the soul.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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Immitation is suicide.
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You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.
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Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so.
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The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!
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What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.
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Every young man is prone to be misled by the suggestions of his own ill-founded ambition which he mistakes for the promptings of asecret genius, and thence dreams of unrivaled greatness.
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Luckily for us, now that steam has narrowed the Atlantic to a strait, the nervous, rocky West is intruding a new and continental element into the national mind, as we shall yet have an American genius.
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There is a crack in everything God has made
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The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us.
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There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.
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The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health he must be at the top of his condition.
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Let us learn the meaning of economy. Economy is a high human office,--a sacrament when its aim is grand, when it is the prudence of simple tastes, when it is practised for freedom or for love or devotion.
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The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.
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It is about your outlook towards life. You can either regret or rejoice.
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We cannot let our angels go we do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in.
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