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What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived
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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Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.
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The kitchen clock is more convenient than sidereal time. We must use the popular category, as we do by the Linnæan classification, for convenience, and not as exact and final. Otherwise, we are presently confounded, when the best-settled traits of one race are claimed by some new ethnologist as precisely characteristic of the rival tribe.
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Greatness once and forever has down with opinion.
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Knowledge is the only elegance.
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Man is made of the same atoms the world is, he shares the same impressions, predispositions, and destiny. When his mind is illuminated, when his heart is kind, he throws himself joyfully into the sublime order, and does, with knowledge, what the stones do by structure.
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An actually existing fly is more important than a possibly existing angel.
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Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade. Their works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world. I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is not an apology, but a life.
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By going one step further back in thought, discordant opinions are reconciled by being seen to be two extremes of one principle, and we can never go so far back as to preclude a still higher vision.
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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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It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made, that we exist
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Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go, and is only right admirable when to all its beauty and speed a subserviency to the will, like that of walking, is added.
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Where is he who seeing a thousand men useless and unhappy, and making the whole region forlorn by their inaction, and conscious himself of possessing the faculty they want, does not hear his call to go and be their king?
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A determined man, by his very attitude and the tone of his voice, puts a stop to defeat, and begins to conquer.
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The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
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Beauty through my senses stole I yielded myself to the perfect whole.
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Sometimes we receive the power to say yes to life. Then peace enters us and makes us whole.
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The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.
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