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What we call results are beginnings.
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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Don't make a novel to establish a principle of political economy. You will spoil both.
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The scholar may lose himself in schools, in words, and become a pedant but when he comprehends his duties, he above all men is arealist, and converses with things.
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Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.
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Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.
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Necessity does everything well. In our condition of universal dependence, it seems heroic to let the petitioner be the judge of his necessity, and to give all that is asked, though at great inconvenience.
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Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it
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How can he [today's writer] be honored, when he does not honor himself when he loses himself in the crowd when he is no longer the lawgiver, but the sycophant, ducking to the giddy opinion of a reckless public.
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Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply,- 'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.
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The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books and I think no chair is so much needed.
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Whatever is old corrupts, and the past turns to snakes.
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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.
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Health, south wind, books, old trees, a boat, a friend.
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Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.
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Out of sleeping a waking, Out of waking a sleep.
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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.
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All men are poets at heart.
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We walk alone in the world.
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Without the great arts which speak to the sense of beauty, a man seems to me a poor, naked, shivering creature. These are his becoming draperies, which warm and adorn him.
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The true poem is the poet's mind.
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The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
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