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Do your thing, and I shall know you.
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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It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu, and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result. These samples attested the virtue of the tree.
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The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home. We imitate and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind?
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The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out, and we are become timorous desponding whimperers. We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other.
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The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.
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The power of a man increases steadily by continuing in one direction.
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Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.
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To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.
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