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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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A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant.
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The house praises the carpenter.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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There comes a period of the imagination to each--a later youth--the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry.
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Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.
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Divine persons are character born, or, to borrow a phrase from Napoleon, they are victory organized.
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We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected.
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Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate debt, which consumes so much time, which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base, is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone, and is needed most by those who suffer from it most.
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The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will, but pleasantly, and, as it were, merrily, he advancesto his own music, alike in frightful alarms and in the tipsy mirth of universal dissoluteness.
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Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyph to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life before he apprehends it as truth.
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Tis the good reader that makes the good book a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
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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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Friendship is an order of nobility from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.
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Art is a jealous mistress and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.
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The poise of a plant, the bended tree recovering itself from the strong wind, the vital resources of every vegetable and animal, are also demonstrations of the self-sufficing, and therefore self-relying soul. All history from its highest to its trivial passages is the various record of this power.
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To Be is to live with God.
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In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do what you're afraid to do.
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Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.
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