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Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.
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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A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine. If a singer sing from a sense of duty or from seeing no way to escape,I had rather have none. Those only can sleep who do not care to sleep and those only write or speak best who do not too much respect the writing or the speaking.
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When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
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The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.
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Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do, instead of converting it into the obedient spiracle ofyour character and aims.
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As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
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We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.
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Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.
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I like people who like Plato.
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Really, all things and persons are related to us, but according to our nature, they act on us not at once, but in succession, andwe are made aware of their presence one at a time. All persons, all things which we have known, are here present, and many more than we see the world is full.
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Each particle is a microcosm, and faithfully renders the likeness of the world.
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It's a luxury to be understood.
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And, in fine, the ancient precept, Know thyself, and the modern precept, Study nature, become at last one maxim.
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Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom.
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He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.
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Self-love is, in almost all men, such an over-weight that they are incredulous of a man's habitual preference of the general good to his own but when they see it proved by sacrifices of ease, wealth, rank, and of life itself, there is no limit to their admiration.
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No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.
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A little fact is worth a whole limbo of dreams.
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Society has really no graver interest than the well-being of the literary class.
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The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.
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When all shoot at one mark, the gods join in the combat.
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