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Life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour.
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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We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary talent wasa youthful effervescence which we have now lost.
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The first lesson of history is that evil is good.
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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
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Power is the first good.
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Calmness is always godlike.
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Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago, but it is put to better use.
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There are moods in which we court suffering, in the hope that here, at least, we shall find reality, sharp peaks and edges of truth. But it turns out to be scene-painting and counterfeit. The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.
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That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.
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A man is the prisoner of his power. A topical memory makes him an almanac a talent for debate, disputant skill to get money makes him a miser, that is, a beggar. Culture reduces these inflammations by invoking the aid of other powers against the dominant talent, and by appealing to the rank of powers. It watches success.
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The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed.
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It is an esoteric doctrine of society, that a little wickedness is good to make muscle as if conscience were not good for hands and legs.
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Nature forever puts a premium on reality. What is done for effect is seen to be done for effect what is done for love is felt to be done for love. A man inspires affection and honor because he was not lying in wait for these.
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We acquire the strength we have overcome.
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The French woman says, 'I am a woman and a Parisienne, and nothing foreign to me appears altogether human.'
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In the hands of the discoverer, medicine becomes a heroic art . . wherever life is dear he is a demigod.
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God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.
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All promise outruns performance.
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