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Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.
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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I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and a medicine.
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There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.
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Only those books come down which deserve to last . All the gilt edges, vellum and morocco, all the presentation copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date.
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Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn.
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When some external event raises your spirits and you think good days are preparing for you, do not believe it. It can never be so. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
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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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Read proudly--put the duty of being read invariably on the author. If he is not read, whose fault is it? I am quite ready to be charmed, but I shall not make-believe I am charmed.
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He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments - is the rich and royal man.
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Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.
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The unbelief of the age is attested by the loud condemnation of trifles.
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Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong
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Bonaparte knew but one merit, and rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet, the good player.
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men or they are no better than dreams.
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No matter how often defeated, you are born to victory.
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