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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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After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk.
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All public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized.
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The history of the genesis or the old mythology repeats itself in the experience of every child. He too is a demon or god thrown into a particular chaos, where he strives ever to lead things from disorder into order.
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Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.
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Thought is the seed of action but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in thought, to the end that it may be uttered and acted. Always in proportion to the depth of its sense does it knock importunately at the gates of the soul, to be spoken, to be done.
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Patience and fortitude conquer all things.
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Who does not sometimes envy the good and the brave, who are no more to suffer from the tumults of the natural world, and await with curious complacency the speedy term of his own conversation with finite nature?
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A believer, a mind whose faith is consciousness, is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees.
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My good hoe as it bites the ground revenges my wrongs, and I have less lust to bite my enemies. In the smoothing the rough hillocks, I smooth my temper.
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How much finer things are in composition than alone.
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Genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
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Personal rights, universally the same, demand a government framed on the ratio of the census: property demands a government framedon the ratio of owners and of owning.
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Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startles out wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.
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I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
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Not in his goals but in his transitions, man is great.
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He is great who confers the most benefits.
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The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite.
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No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
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Want is a growing giant whom the coat of have was never large enough to cover.
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