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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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I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.
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The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it.
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I believe it is the conviction of the purest men, that the net amount of man and man does not much vary. Each is incomparably superior to his companion in some faculty. His want of skill in other directions, has added to his fitness for his own work.
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I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast.
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Culture is one thing and varnish is another.
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Our expense is almost all for conformity. It is for cake that we run in debt 'tis not the intellect, not the heart, not beauty, not worship, that costs so much.
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I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.
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The great will not condescend to take anything seriously.
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The highest compact we can make with our fellow is - Let there be truth between us two forevermore.
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Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks he is free.
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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Football is four 15-minute quarters. Plus timeouts and commercials.
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Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle: endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge.
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Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
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'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.
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It is easy to see that what is best written or done by genius in the world, was no man's work but came by wide social labor, whena thousand wrought like one, sharing the same impulse.
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Do not spill thy soul in running hither and yon, grieving over the mistakes and the vices of others. The one person whom it is most necessary to reform is yourself.
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There is always safety in valor.
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A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. A transcendent talent draws so largely on his forces as tolame him a defect pays him revenues on the other side.
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We acquire the strength we have overcome.
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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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