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Begin and proceed on a settled conviction that but little is permitted to any man to do or to know, and if he complies with the first grand laws, he shall do well.
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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I quote another man's saying unluckily, that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me.
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Let us learn the meaning of economy. Economy is a high human office,--a sacrament when its aim is grand, when it is the prudence of simple tastes, when it is practised for freedom or for love or devotion.
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Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the toughfibre of the human heart. The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.
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Human character evermore publishes itself. The most fugitive deed and word, the intimated purpose, express character.
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When the spirit is not master of the world, then it is its dupe.
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It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'
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In every landscape, the point of astonishment is the meeting of the sky and the earth, and that is seen from the first hillock aswell as from the top of the Alleghanies. The stars at night stoop down over the brownest, homeliest common, with all the spiritual magnificence which they shed on the Campagna, or on the marble deserts of Egypt.
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As a man thinketh, so is he, and as a man chooseth, so is he.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
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