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I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the luster out of fiction.
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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Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long.
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It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive, the character, the secret self. We call the tree good from its fruits, and the man, from his works.
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The shows of the day, the dewy morning, the rainbow, mountains, orchards in blossom, stars, moonlight, shadows in still water, andthe like, if too eagerly hunted, become shows merely, and mock us with their unreality.
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I quote another man's saying unluckily, that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me.
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A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
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If thought makes free, so does the moral sentiment. The mixtures of spiritual chemistry refuse to be analyzed.
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Times of heroism are generally times of terror, but the day never shines in which this element may not work.
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Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth.
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The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.
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Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.
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The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.
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A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.
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Every reform was once a private opinion.
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The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.
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I see it only that thyself is here, and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels and the supreme being shall not be absent from the chamber where thou sittest.
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