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Every man's task [his 'great dream' and impassioned life-goal] is his life preserver.
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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O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.
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We begin with friendships, and all our youth is a reconnoitering and recruiting of the holy fraternity they shall combine for thesalvation of men. But so the remoter stars seem a nebula of united light, yet there is no group which a telescope will not resolve and the dearest friends are separated by impassable gulfs.
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Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of beat.
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But genius looks forward: the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates.
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We don't grow old. When we cease to grow, we become old.
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People say law but they mean wealth.
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Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a century, and dwarfs an age to an hour.
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The religion which is to guide and fulfill the present and coming ages, whatever else it be, must be intellectual. The scientific mind must have a faith which is science.
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The greatest genius is the most indebted person.
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Earth's a howling wilderness, Truculent with fraud and force.
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Our health is our sound relation to external objects our sympathy with external being.
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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 imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.
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The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite. The soul environs itself with friends, that it may enter into a grander self-acquaintance or solitude and it goes alone for a season, that it may exalt its conversation or society.
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It now appears that the negro race is, more than any other, susceptible of rapid civilization. The emancipation is observed, in the islands, to have wrought for the negro a benefit as sudden as when a thermometer is brought out of the shade into the sun. It has given him eyes and ears.
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When the gods come among men, they are not known.
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Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.
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Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
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The soul lets no man go without some visitations and holy-days of a diviner presence.
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A human being should beware how he laughs, for then he shows all his faults.
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