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When the spirit is not master of the world, then it is its dupe.
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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When good is near you, when you have life in yourself, it is not by any known or accustomed way you shall not discern the foot-prints of any other you shall not see the face of man you shall not hear any name the way, the thought, the good, shall be wholly strange and new. It shall exclude example and experience.
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I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make that man another you. One's enough.
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Tragedy is in the eye of the observer, and not in the heart of the sufferer.
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A friend is the hope of the heart.
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None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed.
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We pray to be conventional. But the wary Heaven takes care you shall not be, if there is anything good in you. Dante was very badcompany, and was never invited to dinner.
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The world is the ring of his spells, And the play of his miracles.
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Necessity does everything well.
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Knowledge, Virtue, Power are the victories of man over his necessities, his march to the dominion of the world.
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This knot of nature is so well tied that nobody was ever cunning enough to find the two ends.
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Every man is grave alone.
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Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?.
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A friend is a person who goes around saying nice things about you behind your back.
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Wise cultivated, genial conversation is the last flower of civilization, and the best result which life has to offer us,--a cup for gods, which has no repentance. Conversation is our account of ourselves. All we have, all we can, all we know, is brought into play, and as the reproduction in finer form, of all our havings.
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An action is the perfection and publication of thought. A right action seems to fill the eye, and to be related to all nature.
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The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
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Congratulate yourself if you have done something strange, extravagant and broken the monotony.
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