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A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice 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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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Money is of no value it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender.
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The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.
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We are not free to use today, or to promise tomorrow, because we are already mortgaged to yesterday.
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The Times are the masquerade of the eternities trivial to the dull, tokens of noble and majestic agents to the wise the receptacle in which the Past leaves its history the quarry out of which the genius of today is building up the Future.
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All life is an experiment.
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
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A friend is the hope of the heart.
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Nothing in nature is exhausted in its first use...In God, every end is converted into a new means.
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For, truly speaking, whoever provokes me to a good act or thought has given me a pledge of his fidelity to virtue,--he has come under the bonds to adhere to that cause to which we are jointly attached.
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Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul
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The power of a man increases steadily by continuance in one direction. He becomes acquainted with the resistances and with his own tools increases his skill and strength and learns the favorable moments and favorable accidents.
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The philosophy of waiting is sustained by all the oracles of the universe.
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Women have a less accurate measure of time than men there is a clock in Adam, none in Eve.
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A determined man, by his very attitude and the tone of his voice, puts a stop to defeat, and begins to conquer.
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For the existing world is not a dream, and cannot with impunity be treated as a dream neither is it a disease but it is the ground on which you stand, it is the mother of whom you were born.
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Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the law-giver is before the law-receiver.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best of life is conversation.
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I look on trade and every mechanical craft as education also. But let me discriminate what is precious herein. There is in each ofthese works an act of invention, an intellectual step, or short series of steps taken that act or step is the spiritual act all the rest is mere repetition of the same a thousand times.
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Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every word was once a poem.
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