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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
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When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
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Knowledge is when you learn something new every day. Wisdom is when you let something go every day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thy dangerous glances make women of men new-born, we are melting into nature again.
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Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.
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Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.
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There is always a best way of doing everything.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The babe in arms is a channel through which the energies we call fate, love, and reason visibly stream.
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The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.
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The end of being is to know and if you say, the end of knowledge is action,-why, yes, but the end of that action again, is knowledge.
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Do not follow where the path may lead.
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All the elements, whose aid man calls in, will sometimes become big masters.
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The finest poems of the world have been expedients to get bread.
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The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from.
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The aspect of nature is devout. Like the figure of Jesus, she stands with bended head, and hands folded upon the breast. The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.
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We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience, or we shall learn nothing rightly.
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The greatest genius is the most indebted person.
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Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
He is the rich man in whom the people are rich, and he is the poor man in whom the people are poor and how to give access to themasterpieces of art and nature, is the problem of civilization.
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