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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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This immediate dependence of language upon nature, this conversion of an outward phenomenon into a type of somewhat in human life,never loses its power to affect us. It is this which gives that piquancy to the conversation of a strong-natured farmer or backwoodsman, which all men relish.
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We might as easily reprove the east wind, or the frost, as a political party, whose members, for the most part, could give no account of their position, but stand for the defence of those interests in which they find themselves.
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But do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.
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People who wash much have a high mind about it, and talk down to those who wash little.
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I am Defeated all the time, yet to Victory I am born.
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A gentleman makes no noise a lady is serene.
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The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.
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Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.
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Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims.
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The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. Nature never wears a mean appearance.
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Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.
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You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God you shall not have both.
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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
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We learn that God IS that he is in me and that all things are shadows of him.
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The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.
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