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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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In this great society wide lying around us, a critical analysis would find very few spontaneous actions. It is almost all custom and gross sense.
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Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.
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The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
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I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-borne treasures home.
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Man sheds grief as his skin sheds rain.
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The powers of the Soul are commensurate with its needs.
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A weed is a plant whose virtue is not yet known.
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Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
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The only joy in his being mine, is that the not mine is mine.
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Every natural action is graceful.
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In every situation do the thing you fear. If you do the thing you fear, the death of fear is certain.
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The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.
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Human beings cannot endure the geological chaos they encounter under the soil of their own gardens.
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For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?
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When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen.
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The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion.
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The world globes itself in a drop of dew.
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Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
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A man complained that on his way home to dinner he had every day to pass through that long field of his neighbor's. I advised him to buy it, and it would never seem long again.
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The need for a rational consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
