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But do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.
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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People are timid and apologetic they are no longer upright they dare not say I think, I am, but quote some saint or sage. They are ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose. These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones they are for what they are they exist with God to-day.
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Therefore is nature ever the ally of Religion: lends her all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment.
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The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.
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They think him the best dressed man, whose dress is so fit for his use that you cannot notice or remember to describe it.
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The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things, with commerce, government, church, marriage, and so with the history of every man's bread, and the ways by which he is to come by it.
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We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. It may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good issues, so it be faithfully imparted, but God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.
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Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy, but in the state, and in the schools, it is indispensable to resist the consolidation ofall men into a few men.
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Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life. People only see what they are prepared to see.
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It is for want of self-culture that the superstition of Travelling, whose idols are Italy, England, Egypt, retains its fascinationfor all educated Americans.
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The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will, but pleasantly, and, as it were, merrily, he advancesto his own music, alike in frightful alarms and in the tipsy mirth of universal dissoluteness.
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That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual the wise man wonders at the usual.
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The universal soul is the alone creator of the useful and the beautiful therefore to make anything useful or beautiful, the individual must be submitted to the universal mind.
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We fetch fire and water, run about all day among the shops and markets, and get our clothes and shoes made and mended, and are thevictims of these details, and once in a fortnight we arrive perhaps at a rational moment.
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He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
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If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience.
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Such is the active power of good temperament! Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid.
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Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.
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