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Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.
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 law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite. The soul environs itself with friends, that it may enter into a grander self-acquaintance or solitude and it goes alone for a season, that it may exalt its conversation or society.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Englishman who has lost his fortune is said to have died of a broken heart.
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The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a loss of wealth, a loss of friends, seems at the moment unpaid loss, and unpayable. But the sure years reveal the deep remedial force that underlies all facts.
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The reverence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous sentiment. Their merit was not to reverence the old, but to honor the present moment and we falsely make them excuses of the very habit which they hated and defied.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is not intellectual or critical, but sturdy. Its chief good is for well-mixed people who can enjoy what they find, without question.
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Everything runs to excess every good quality is noxious if unmixed.
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It does not hurt weak eyes to look into beautiful eyes never so long.
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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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Let it suffice that in the light of these two facts, namely, that the mind is One, and that nature is its correlative, history isto be read and written.
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A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him.
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Every man has a vocation. The talent is the call.
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God has delegated himself to a million deputies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a tendency for things to right themselves.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A Judge may be a farmer but he is not to geld his own pigs.
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That man is idle who can do something better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man is wanted, and no man is wanted much.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is nothing in history to parallel the influence of Jesus Christ.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
He only is rich who owns the day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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