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All my hurts my garden spade can heal.
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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What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.
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A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes, by his distastes, by the stories he tells, by his gait, by the notion of his eye, by the look of his house, of his chamber for nothing on earth is solitary but every thing hath affinities infinite.
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A child convinced against his will is of the same opinion still. The reward for a thing well done, is to have done it.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding
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The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome.
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Nobody is glad in the gladness of another, and our system is one of war, of an injurious superiority. Every child of the Saxon race is educated to wish to be first. It is our system and a man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies, and hatreds of his competitors.
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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions.
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Poverty demoralizes. A man in debt is so far a slave and Wall-street thinks it easy for a millionaire to be a man of his word, aman of honor, but, that, in failing circumstances, no man can be relied on to keep his integrity.
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Numbers serve to discipline rhetoric. Without them it is too easy to follow flights of fancy, to ignore the world as it is and to remold it nearer the heart's desire.
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It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day.
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.
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We over-estimate the conscience of our friend. His goodness seems better than our goodness, his nature finer, his temptations less. Everything that is his,--his name, his form, his dress, books, and instruments,--fancy enhances. Our own thought sounds new and larger from his mouth.
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Tis weak and vicious people who cast the blame on Fate. The right use of Fate is to bring up our conduct to the loftiness of nature.
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Only poetry inspires poetry.
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See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.
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The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.
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Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none.
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Beware of jokes from which we go away hollow and ashamed.
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We do not yet trust the unknown power of thoughts.
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