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An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.
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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But what help from these fineries or pedantries? What help from thought? Life is not dialectics. We, I think, in these times, have had lessons enough of the futility of criticism.
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When a dog is chasing after you, whistle for him.
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Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.
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If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.
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Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose.
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He needs no library, for he has not done thinking no church, for he is himself a prophet no statute book, for he hath the Lawgiver no money, for he is value itself no road, for he is at home where he is.
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No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.
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Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind.
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All promise outruns performance.
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There is nothing but is related to us, nothing that does not interest us,--kingdom, college, tree, horse, or iron show,--the rootsof all things are in man.
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The action of the soul is oftener in that which is felt and left unsaid than in that which is said in any conversation. It broods over every society, and men unconsciously seek for it in each other.
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Instead of making Christianity a vehicle of truth, you make truth only a horse for Christianity.
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Self reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.
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Science, Nature,-O, I've yearned to open some page.
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Christianity taught the capacity, the element, to love the All-perfect without a stingy bargain for personal happiness. It taught that to love Him was happiness--to love Him in others' virtues.
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