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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.
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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How beautiful to have the church always open, so that every tired wayfaring man may come in and be soothed by all that art can suggest of a better world when he is weary with this.
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Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes what a satire this is on government.
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I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever inly rejoices me and the heart apoints.
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A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. A transcendent talent draws so largely on his forces as tolame him a defect pays him revenues on the other side.
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There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads among them take the best places.
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The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward in talent from without inward.
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When the gods come among men, they are not known.
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Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade. Their works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world. I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is not an apology, but a life.
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Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
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All life is an experiment.
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You cannot do a kindness too soon.
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God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
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But we need not fear that we can lose any thing by the progress of the soul. The soul may be trusted to the end.
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Let a man then know his worth and keep things under his feet.
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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
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Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of beat.
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You can take better care of your secret than another can.
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