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We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
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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The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.
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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
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Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.
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We know that madness belongs to love,--what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven.
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Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
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I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality.
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The world-spirit is a good swimmer, and storms and waves can not drown him. He snaps his fingers at laws and so, throughout history, heaven seems to affect low and poor means. Through the years and the centuries, through evil agents, through toys and atoms, a great and beneficent tendency irresistibly streams.
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America means opportunity, freedom, power.
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In Nature, all is useful, all is beautiful
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There is an intimate interdependence of intellect and morals.
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To Be is to live with God.
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
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I hate to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain assurance of success. But as soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.
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An empire is an immense egotism.
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Was never secret history but birds tell it in the bowers.
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Underneath the inharmonious and trivial particulars, is a musical perfection, the Ideal journeying always with us, the heaven without rent or seam.
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There is a tendency in things to right themselves, and the war or revolution or bankruptcy that shatters rotten system, allows things to take a new and natural order.
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The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eternal.
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In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part.
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If the East loves infinity, the West delights in boundaries.
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