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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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Let us unlearn our wisdom of the world. Let us lie low in the Lord's power, and learn that truth alone makes rich and great.
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Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.
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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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It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men in their religion in their education in their pursuits their modes of living their association in their property in their speculative views.
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Man is the dwarf of himself.
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Immitation is suicide.
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My angel,-his name is Freedom,- Choose him to be your king He shall cut pathways east and west, And fend you with his wing.
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Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.
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When the literary class betray a destitution of faith, it is not strange that society should be disheartened and sensualized by unbelief.
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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
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The city is recruited from the country.
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Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.
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When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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