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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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R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
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An English family consists of a few persons, who, from youth to age, are found revolving within a few feet of each other, as if tied by some invisible ligature, tense as that cartilage which we have seen attaching the two Siamese.
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Knowledge is the antidote to fear
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A great man will find a great subject, or which is the same thing, make any subject great.
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The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men.
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Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.
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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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Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.
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It is sublime to think and say of another, I need never meet, or speak, or write to him: we need not reinforce ourselves, or send tokens of remembrance I rely on him as on myself: if he did thus and thus, I know it was right.
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Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
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When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen.
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Yet some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise, and wherever the vein of thought reaches down into the profound, there is no danger from vanity. Solemn friends will warn them of the danger of the head's being turned by the flourish of trumpets, but they can afford to smile.
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People only see what they are prepared to see. If you look for what is good and what you can be grateful for you will find it everywhere.
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Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?
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It is not an arbitrary decree of God, but in the nature of man, that a veil shuts down on the facts of to-morrow for the soul will not have us read any other cipher than that of cause and effect. By this veil, which curtains events, it instructs the children of men to live in to-day.
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People who wash much have a high mind about it, and talk down to those who wash little.
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Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.
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A nation never falls but by suicide.
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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
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Man's life is a progress, not a station.
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