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Among provocatives, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. I have even more thoughts during or enduring it than at other times.
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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When the gods come among men, they are not known.
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There is a principle which is the basis of things, which all speech aims to say, and all action to evolve, a simple, quiet, undescribed, undescribable presence, dwelling very peacefully in us, our rightful lord: we are not to do, but to let do not to work, but to be worked upon.
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Knowledge is the antidote to fear,- Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids.
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But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on our population where all the millions read and write ? It is the joy of nations that man can communicate all his thoughts, discoveries and virtues to records that may last for centuries.
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To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men - that is genius... Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist... What I must do, is all that concerns me not what the people think... Nothing can bring you peace but yourself nothing, but the triumph of principles.
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When it is dark enough, men see the stars.
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An answer in words is delusive it is really no answer to the questions you ask.
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In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.
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No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
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To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy is to set your own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.
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Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
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We call the beautiful the highest, because it appears to us the golden mean, escaping the dowdiness of the good and the heartlessness of the true.
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You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.
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Come out of the azure. Love the day. Do not leave the sky out of your landscape.
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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.
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Though I am weak, yet God, when prayed, Cannot withhold his conquering aid.
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Out of sleeping a waking, Out of waking a sleep.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tomorrow is a new day begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
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Nature is too thin a screen the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Society, to be sure, does not like this very well it saith, Whoso goes to walk alone, accuses the whole world he declares all to be unfit to be his companions it is very uncivil, nay, insulting Society will retaliate.
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