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Where there is no vision a people perish.
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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The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it.
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The city is recruited from the country.
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If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.
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The world globes itself in a drop of dew.
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Fashion understands itself good-breeding and personal superiority of whatever country readily fraternize with those of every other. The chiefs of savage tribes have distinguished themselves in London and Paris, by the purity of their tournure.
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We come to our own and would make friends with matter, which the ambitious chatter of the schools would persuade us to despise. We can never part with it the mind loves its old home: as water to our thirst, so is rock, the ground, to our eyes, and hands, and feet. It is firm water: it is cold flame: what health, what affinity!
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Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome.
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And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.
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It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.
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It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.
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The element running through entire nature, which we popularly call Fate, is known to us as limitation. Whatever limits us, we callFate.
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In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.
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Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.
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I am the owner of the sphere, Of the seven stars and the solar year, of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain, Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakespeare's strain.
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To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of prudence, in the plenitude of its energy and power to repair the harms it may suffer. The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will.
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One man pins me to the wall, while with another I walk among the stars
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Every man is a channel through which heaven floweth.
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Romeo, of dead, should be cut up into little stars to make the heavens fine. Life, with this pair, has no other aim, asks no more,than Juliet,--than Romeo.
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Under every deep a lower deep opens.
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There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men.
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