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Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.
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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He needs no library, for he has not done thinking no church, for he is himself a prophet no statute book, for he hath the Lawgiver no money, for he is value itself no road, for he is at home where he is.
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Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.
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The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.
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A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.
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Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.
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Let it suffice that in the light of these two facts, namely, that the mind is One, and that nature is its correlative, history isto be read and written.
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Those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man, than anything which he said.
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We cannot forgive another for not being ourselves.
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Never read any book that is not a year old.
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Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.
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Is there a difference? Yes. We are in harmony with nature, but never at peace.
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A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for 10 minutes longer.
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The noblest ministry of nature is to stand as the apparition of God.
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Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it
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A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.
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Manners are the happy ways of doing things each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.
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A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. A transcendent talent draws so largely on his forces as tolame him a defect pays him revenues on the other side.
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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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Why has my motley diary no jokes? Because it is a soliloquy and every man is grave alone.
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