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A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home and look up his manuscripts to know.
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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Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.
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What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.
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The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments.
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Power ceases in the instant of repose it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.
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Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual
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A man cannot speak but he judges himself
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The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.
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Speak the affirmative emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject.
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What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection.
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We must be courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.
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For, truly speaking, whoever provokes me to a good act or thought has given me a pledge of his fidelity to virtue,--he has come under the bonds to adhere to that cause to which we are jointly attached.
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Be brave enough to do the loving thing.
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Sitting back in the evening, stargazing and stroking your dog, is an infallible remedy.
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It is the fine souls who serve us, and not what is called fine society. Fine society is only a self-protection against the vulgarities of the street and the tavern.
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Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.
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The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.
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We find in life exactly what we put into it
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The household is a school of power. There, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life.
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A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
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Among provocatives, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. I have even more thoughts during or enduring it than at other times.
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