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If you act, you show character if you sit still, you show it if you sleep you show it.
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
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And dazzling memory revive.Refresh the faded tints, Recut the aged prints, And write my old adventures, with the pen Which, on the first day, drew Upon the tablets blue The dancing Pleiads, and the eternal men.
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Wherever the truth is injured, defend it.
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All the devils respect virtue.
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Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.
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Beware of jokes from which we go away hollow and ashamed.
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Science does not know its debt to imagination.
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If we follow the truth, it will bring us out safe at last.
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Our friends early appear to us as representatives of certain ideas, which they never pass or exceed. They stand on the brink of the ocean of thought and power, but they never take a single step that would bring them there.
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Examples are cited by soldiers, of men who have seen the cannon pointed, and the fire given to it, and who have stepped aside from he path of the ball. The terrors of the storm are chiefly confined to the parlour and the cabin.
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Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn nature's oldest force is as good as new.
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As sunbeams stream through liberal space And nothing jostle or displace, So waved the pine-tree through my thought And fanned the dreams it never brought.
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We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
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The inmost in due time becomes the outmost.
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It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.
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If a teacher have any opinion which he wishes to conceal, his pupils will become as fully indoctrinated into that as into any which he publishes.
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I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me.
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There are not in the world at any one time more than a dozen persons who read and understand Plato:-never enough to pay for an edition of his works yet to every generation these come duly down, for the sake of those few persons, as if God brought them written in his hand.
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