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The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.
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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Though many painters and sculptors talk glibly of going in for photography, you will find that very few of them can ever make a picture by photography they lack the science, technical knowledge, and above all the practice. Most people think they can play tennis, shoot, write novels, and photograph as well as any other person - until they try
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The lord is the peasant that was, The peasant is the lord that shall be.
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My garden is a forest ledge Which older forest s bound The banks slope down to the blue lake-edge, Then plunge to depths profound!
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He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard.
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We pray to be conventional. But the wary Heaven takes care you shall not be, if there is anything good in you. Dante was very badcompany, and was never invited to dinner.
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Walking has the best value as gymnastics of the mind.
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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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Never lose an opportunity to see anything that is beautiful. It is God's handwriting a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower.
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I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals.
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No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.
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A Judge may be a farmer but he is not to geld his own pigs.
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Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.
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He that loveth maketh his own the grandeur he loves
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Do your thing, and I shall know you.
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Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
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Nature and literature are subjective phenomena every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast
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A rush of thoughts is the only conceivable prosperity that can come to us.
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A man of no conversation should smoke.
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Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our own spontaneous expression with good humored inflexibility whether the whole cry of voices is on the other side.
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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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