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Do what you know and perception is converted into character.
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 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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Life has a way of demanding that you live it.
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Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.
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The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eternal.
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If I am the devil's child, I will live then, by the devil.
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The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple.
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Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do, instead of converting it into the obedient spiracle ofyour character and aims.
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I like my boy with his endless sweet soliloquies and iterations and his utter inability to conceive why I should not leave all my nonsense, business, and writing and come to tie up his toy horse, as if there was or could be any end to nature beyond his horse. And he is wiser than we when [he] threatens his whole threat I will not love you.
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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Learn from it... tomorrow is a new day.
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Behind us, as we go, all things assume pleasing forms, as clouds do far off. Not only things familiar and stale, but even the tragic and terrible, are comely, as they take their place in the pictures of memory.
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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.
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As a man thinketh, so is he, and as a man chooseth, so is he.
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Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth. This limbo and dust-hole of thought is presided over by a certain reason, too.
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In Nature, all is useful, all is beautiful
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