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An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.
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 must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.
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It all begins when the soul would have its way with you.
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Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life.
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No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.
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Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.
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The shows of the day, the dewy morning, the rainbow, mountains, orchards in blossom, stars, moonlight, shadows in still water, andthe like, if too eagerly hunted, become shows merely, and mock us with their unreality.
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The world is full of judgment-days, and into every assembly that a man enters, in every action he attempts, he is gauged and stamped.
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Frankness invites frankness.
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We are as much strangers in nature, as we are aliens from God. We do not understand the notes of birds. The fox and the deer run away from us the bear and tiger rend us. We do not know the uses of more than a few plants, as corn and the apple, the potato and the vine. Is not the landscape, every glimpse of which hath a grandeur, a face of him?
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The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the intellect.
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