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Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it.
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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Though your views are in straight antagonism to theirs, assume an identity of sentiment, assume that you are saying precisely thatwhich all think, and in the flow of wit and love roll out your paradoxes in solid column, with not the infirmity of a doubt.
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What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.
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Senators and presidents have climbed so high with pain enough, not because they think the place specially agreeable, but as an apology for real worth, and to vindicate their manhood in our eyes. This conspicuous chair is their compensation to themselves for being of a poor, cold, hard nature.
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The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple.
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Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
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I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page.
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Wise men are not wise at all times.
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What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.
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Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart!-it seems to say,-there is victory yet for all justice and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.
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The religion which is to guide and fulfill the present and coming ages, whatever else it be, must be intellectual. The scientific mind must have a faith which is science.
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The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
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The State is our neighbors our neighbors are the State.
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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.
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God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.
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Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.
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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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Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief in denying them.
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