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No matter how often defeated, you are born to victory.
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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The craft with which the world is made runs also into the mind and character of men. No man is quite sane each has a vein of folly in his composition, a slight determination of blood to the head, to make sure of holding him hard to some one point which Nature has taken to heart.
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Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature.
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Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.
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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
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Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.
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My life is superficial, takes no root in the deep world I ask, When shall I die, and be relieved of the responsibility of seeinga Universe which I do not use? I wish to exchange this flash-of-lightning faith for continuous daylight, this fever-glow for a benign climate.
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Best masters for the young writer and speaker are the fault- finding brothers and sisters at home who will not spare him, but willpick and cavil, and tell the odious truth.
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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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Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.
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I see my trees repair their boughs.
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All the great ages have been ages of belief.
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Conservatism is affluent and openhanded, but there is a cunning juggle in riches. I observe that they take somewhat for everythingthey give. I look bigger, but am less I have more clothes, but am nit so warm more armor, but less courage more books, but less wit.
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The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.
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Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a great city, and no man knows what is safe, or where it will end.
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Talent may frolic and juggle genius realizes and adds.
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Under every deep a lower deep opens.
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We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man, man.
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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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There is really no insurmountable barrier save your own inherent weakness of purpose.
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