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The first lesson of history is that evil is good.
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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The secret of the world is the tie between person and event. Person makes event and event person.
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The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect... it is the game of a rude and youthful people, and not the manly labour of a wise and spiritual nation.
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The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tablets yet unbroken: The word by seers or sibyls told, In groves of oak or fanes of gold, Still floats upon the morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind.
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Let not the tie be mercenary, though the service is measured in money. Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.
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What we call results are beginnings.
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Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
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Washington, where an insignificant individual may trespass on a nation's time.
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The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.
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I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old.
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Man's life is a progress, not a station.
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The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.
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Observe how every truth and every error, each a thought of someone's mind, clothes itself with societies, houses, cities, language, ceremonies, newspapers
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To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.
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