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Do your work, but do your thing.
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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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
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When good is near you, when you have life in yourself, it is not by any known or accustomed way you shall not discern the foot-prints of any other you shall not see the face of man you shall not hear any name the way, the thought, the good, shall be wholly strange and new. It shall exclude example and experience.
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My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.
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We flee away from cities, but we bring The best of cities, these learned classifiers, Men knowing what they seek, armed eyes of experts.
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Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.
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In strict science, all persons underlie the same condition of an infinite remoteness. Shall we fear to cool our love by mining forthe metaphysical foundation of this elysian temple? Shall I not be as real as the things I see? If I am, I shall not fear to know them for what they are.
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People who know how to act are never preachers.
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For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing.
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People suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is impossible for a person to be cheated by anyone but himself.
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In the hands of the discoverer, medicine becomes a heroic art . . wherever life is dear he is a demigod.
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Commonsense is the wick of the candle.
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Headwinds are sore vexations and the more passengers the sorer.
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We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves.
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Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do, instead of converting it into the obedient spiracle ofyour character and aims.
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When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
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I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.
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