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Every man believes he has a greater possibility.
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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Without the great arts which speak to the sense of beauty, a man seems to me a poor, naked, shivering creature. These are his becoming draperies, which warm and adorn him.
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There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.
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Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence, the book-learned class, who value books, as such not as related to nature and the human constitution, but as making a sort of Third Estate with the world and the soul. Hence, the restorers of readings, the emendators, the bibliomaniacs of all degrees.
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Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.
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Fate is unpenetrated causes.
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People suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is impossible for a person to be cheated by anyone but himself.
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In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.
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Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.
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Great country, diminutive minds. America is formless, has no terrible and no beautiful condensation.
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Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself.
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To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul. A true conversion, a true Christ, is now, as always, to be madeby the reception of beautiful sentiments.
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History no longer shall be a dull book. It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man. You shall not tell me by language and titles a catalogue of the volumes you have read. You shall make me feel what periods you have lived.
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Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and grow up slaves.
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Conformity is the ape of harmony.
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Do that which you fear to do, and the fear will die.
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Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches.
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The only joy in his being mine, is that the not mine is mine.
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Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.
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He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not 'studying a profession', for he does not postpone his life, but lives already. He has not one chance, but a hundred chances.
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Life is unnecessarily long. Moments of insight, of fine personal relation, a smile, a glance,--what ample borrowers of eternity they are!
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