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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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Essayist
Philosopher
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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Desire
Seeking
Possibility

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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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Some men, at the approach of a dispute, neigh like horses.
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In Nature, all is useful, all is beautiful
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A ruddy drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs The world uncertain comes and goes, The lover rooted stays.
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The unbelief of the age is attested by the loud condemnation of trifles.
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Every natural action is graceful.
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Knowledge, Virtue, Power are the victories of man over his necessities, his march to the dominion of the world.
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The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out.
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Pride is handsome, economical pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that it seems as if it were a great gain to exchange vanity for pride.
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There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself.
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We shun the rugged battle of fate where strength is born.
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But what help from these fineries or pedantries? What help from thought? Life is not dialectics. We, I think, in these times, have had lessons enough of the futility of criticism.
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My doom and my strength is to be solitary.
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The Englishman who has lost his fortune is said to have died of a broken heart.
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The universal soul is the alone creator of the useful and the beautiful therefore to make anything useful or beautiful, the individual must be submitted to the universal mind.
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The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.
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Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.
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The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm within which endangers him[,] not the storm without.
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