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Desire is possibility seeking expression.
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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I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding, which can subsist, after much exchange ofgood offices, between two virtuous men, each of whom is sure of himself, and sure of his friend. It is a happiness which postpones all other gratifications, and makes politics, and commerce, and churches, cheap.
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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other, and thus makes him necessary to society. ... Society can never prosper, but must always be bankrupt, until every man does that which he was created to do.
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An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.
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The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.
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In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, and go as brave as the zodiac.
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Do not spill thy soul in running hither and yon, grieving over the mistakes and the vices of others. The one person whom it is most necessary to reform is yourself.
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A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude.
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Though I am weak, yet God, when prayed, Cannot withhold his conquering aid.
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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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There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding.
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Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.
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