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Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.
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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I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is doing today.
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Ability without honor has no value.
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Beside all the small reasons we assign, there is a great reason for the existence of every extant fact a reason which lies grandand immovable, often unsuspected behind it in silence.
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Where is he who seeing a thousand men useless and unhappy, and making the whole region forlorn by their inaction, and conscious himself of possessing the faculty they want, does not hear his call to go and be their king?
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Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous or when they are most luxurious-they are conservatives after dinner.
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The virtue in most request is conformity.
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The terrors of the child are quite reasonable, and add to his loveliness for his utter ignorance and weakness, and his enchanting indignation on such a small basis of capital compel every bystander to take his part.
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Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. We're so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside.
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Truth is too simple for us: we do not like those who unmask our illusions.
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The intellect,-that is miraculous! Who has it, has the talisman: his skin and bones, though they were of the color of night, are transparent, and the everlasting stars shine through, with attractive beams.
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The whole value of the dime is in knowing what to do with it.
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Who does not sometimes envy the good and the brave, who are no more to suffer from the tumults of the natural world, and await with curious complacency the speedy term of his own conversation with finite nature?
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No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.
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Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long.
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But genius looks forward: the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates.
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Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries.
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The powers of the Soul are commensurate with its needs.
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Live in the sunshine.
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A walk in the woods is only an exalted dream.
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Greatness once and forever has down with opinion.
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