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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
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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The Gods we worship write their names on our faces be sure of that. And a man will worship something ... That which dominates will determine his life and character. Therefore it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.
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The beautiful is never plentiful.
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Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.
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Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.
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A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.
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Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.
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Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and universal laws which it discloses yet it does not surprise the moral sentiment that was older and awaited expectant these larger insights.
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We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.
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It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no person can sincerely try to help another without helping him or herself. Serve and you shall be served. If you love and serve people, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape the remuneration.
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In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present estate.
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It all begins when the soul would have its way with you.
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An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.
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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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Commerce is of trivial import love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
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Every natural action is graceful.
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A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment and even obstacles and opposition will but make us like the fabled specter-ships, which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.
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It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
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Sometimes we receive the power to say yes to life. Then peace enters us and makes us whole.
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