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O friend, never strike sail to a fear!
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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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
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It is one of the biggest blessing that you can be stupid with your true friends and behave like you shame to do elsewhere
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Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. The mind does not create what it perceives, anymore than the eye creates the rose.
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It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.
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Character is that which can do without success.
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I am a part and parcel of God.
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It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.
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A man in the view of absolute goodness, adores, with total humility. Every step downward, is a step upward. The man who renounceshimself, comes to himself.
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The day is always his, who works in it with serenity and great aims.
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If the king is in the palace, nobody looks at the walls. It is when he is gone, and the house is filled with grooms and gazers, that we turn from the people, to find relief in the majestic men that are suggested by the pictures and the architecture.
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There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.
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When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.
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Friendship is an order of nobility from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.
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What is addressed to us for contemplation does not threaten us, but makes us intellectual beings.
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If we follow the truth, it will bring us out safe at last.
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The aspect of nature is devout. Like the figure of Jesus, she stands with bended head, and hands folded upon the breast. The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
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Earth laughs in flowers to see her boastful boys Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs Who steer the plough, but cannot steer their feet Clear of the grave.
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The Roman rule was, to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing. The old English rule was, All summer in the field, and all winter in the study. And it seems as if a man should learn to plant, or to fish, or to hunt, that he might secure his subsistence at all events, and not be painful to his friends and fellow men.
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We must learn the language of facts. The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.
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The way to mend the bad world is to create the right world.
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