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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.
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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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.
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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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The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.
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New York is a sucked orange. All conversation is at an end, when we have discharged ourselves of a dozen personalities, domestic or imported, which make up our American existence.
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He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
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There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears but a court as of angels, a public not to be bribed, not to be entreated, and not to be overawed, decides upon every man's title to fame.
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Do what you're afraid to do.
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We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man, man.
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All the great ages have been ages of belief.
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Daughter of heaven and earth, coy Spring, With sudden passion languishing, Teaching barren moors to smile, Painting pictures mile on mile, Holds a cup of cowslip wreaths Whence a smokeless incense breathes.
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