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There is one mind common to all individual men
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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Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.
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Some eyes threaten like a loaded and levelled pistol, and others are as insulting as hissing or kicking some have no more expression than blueberries, while others are as deep as a well which you can fall into.
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I hate to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain assurance of success. But as soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.
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Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.
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There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.
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Science, Nature,-O, I've yearned to open some page.
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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Learn from it... tomorrow is a new day.
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We do what we can, and then make a theory to prove our performance the best.
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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
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Far or forgot to me is near Shadow and sunlight are the same The vanished gods to me appear And one to me are shame and fame.They reckon ill who leave me out When me they fly, I am the wings I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.
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If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it at any rate, brag.
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The poet needs a ground in popular tradition on which he may work, and which, again, may restrain his art within the due temperance. It holds him to the people, supplies a foundation for his edifice and, in furnishing so much work done to his hand, leaves him at leisure, and in full strength for the audacities of his imagination.
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We acquire the strength we have overcome.
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A great man will find a great subject, or which is the same thing, make any subject great.
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If you follow the suburban fashion in building a sumptuous- looking house for a little money, it will appear to all eyes as a cheap, dear house.
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Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed.
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Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
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A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat self-control is the rule.
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Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.
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When there is sympathy, there needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise,--so, a blockhead makes a blockhead of his companion. Wonderful power to benumb possesses this brother.
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