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No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
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
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An action is the perfection and publication of thought. A right action seems to fill the eye, and to be related to all nature.
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A man must be clothed with society, or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty, as of a displaced and unfurnished member. He is to be dressed in arts and institutions, as well as in body garments. Now and then a man exquisitely made can live alone, and must but coop up most men and you undo them.
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Successful is the person who has lived well, laughed often and loved much, who has gained the respect of children, who leaves the world better than they found it, who has never lacked appreciation for the earth's beauty, who never fails to look for the best in others or give the best of themselves.
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All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.
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For, truly speaking, whoever provokes me to a good act or thought has given me a pledge of his fidelity to virtue,--he has come under the bonds to adhere to that cause to which we are jointly attached.
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Be a football to Time and Chance, the more kicks, the better, so that you inspect the whole game and know its utmost law.
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Power is what they want, not candy-power to execute their design, power to give legs and feet, form and actuality to their thought which, to a clear-sighted man, appears the end for which the universe exists, and all its resources might be well applied.
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Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons.
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The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.
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'Well,' said Red Jacket [to someone complaining that he had not enough time], 'I suppose you have all there is.'
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All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.
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Free should be the scholar - free and brave.
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We are always getting ready to live but never living.
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All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us.
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Greatness once and forever has down with opinion.
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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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Line in Nature is not found Unit and Universe are round.
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Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
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In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, and go as brave as the zodiac.
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Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.
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