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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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Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.
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When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence.
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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
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Not always can flowers, pearls, poetry, protestations, nor even home in another heart, content the awful soul that dwells in clay.
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We do what we can, and then make a theory to prove our performance the best.
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Truth gathers itself spotless and unhurt after all our surrenders and concealments and partisanship never hurt by the treachery or ruin of its best defenders, whether Luther, or William Penn, or St. Paul.
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What we seek we shall find what we flee from flees from us.
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Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might.
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God has delegated himself to a million deputies.
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The noblest ministry of nature is to stand as the apparition of God.
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Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding
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The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.
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The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.
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The great will not condescend to take anything seriously.
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What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.
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Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings.
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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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Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.
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Look out! Behind you!
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The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.
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