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That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say even though we may repeat the words ever so often.
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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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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The virtue in most request is conformity.
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Spurious prudence, making the senses final, is the god of sots and cowards, and is the subject of all comedy. It is nature's joke, and therefore literature's. True prudence limits this sensualism by admitting the knowledge of an internal and real world.
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The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.
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I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.
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Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.
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The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
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Every man's task [his 'great dream' and impassioned life-goal] is his life preserver.
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Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.
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When the spirit is not master of the world, then it is its dupe.
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The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.
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Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book.
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
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The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic importance of their contents to the constant mind of man.
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Each particle is a microcosm, and faithfully renders the likeness of the world.
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I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world. With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations of nature.
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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.
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