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Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.
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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Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply,- 'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.
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Great country, diminutive minds. America is formless, has no terrible and no beautiful condensation.
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Jesus and Shakespeare are fragments of the soul, and by love I conquer and incorporate them in my own conscious domain. His virtue,--is not that mine? His wit,--if it cannot be made mine, it is not wit.
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Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.
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The affections cannot keep their youth any more than men.
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[W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out of their human estate.
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The order of things consents to virtue.
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Therefore is nature ever the ally of Religion: lends her all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment.
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There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself.
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All public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized.
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O friend, never strike sail to a fear!
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There is no calamity that right words will not begin to redress
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In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, and go as brave as the zodiac.
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Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day.
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