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Every man is eloquent once in his life.
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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When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.
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In my utter impotence to test the authenticity of the report of my senses, to know whether the impressions they make on me correspond with outlying objects, what difference does it make, whether Orion is up there in heaven, or some god paints the image in the firmament of the soul?
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If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads, just one year afterwards.
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A little fact is worth a whole limbo of dreams.
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All history is biography.
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It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'
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Stand guard at the portal of your mind.
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I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is doing today.
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The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those perverse tendencies and gloomy insanities in which fine intellects sometimes lose themselves. A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still convertible. If that sense is lost, his fellow-men can do little for him.
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How much finer things are in composition than alone.
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Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.
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Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms.
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In Nature, all is useful, all is beautiful
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On bravely through the sunshine and the showers! Time hath his work to do, and we have ours.
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The thief steals from himself. The swindler swindles himself. For the real price is knowledge and virtue, whereof wealth and credit are signs. These signs, like paper money, may be counterfeited or stolen, but that which they represent, namely, knowledge and virtue, cannot be counterfeited or stolen.
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Let us replace sentimentalism by realism and dare to uncover those simple and terrible laws which, be they seen or unseen, pervade and govern.
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Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.
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The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.
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Tis the good reader that makes the good book a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
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All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle...is another riddle.
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