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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
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Massachusetts
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Go, speed the stars of Thought On to their shining goals - The sower scatters broad his seed, The wheat thou strew'st be souls.
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The best of life is conversation.
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Commonsense is the wick of the candle.
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Our statute is a currency which we stamp with our own portrait.
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We call the beautiful the highest, because it appears to us the golden mean, escaping the dowdiness of the good and the heartlessness of the true.
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In every situation do the thing you fear. If you do the thing you fear, the death of fear is certain.
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The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.
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Prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness.
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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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We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves.
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There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect and poets by nature, these we love.
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One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. He only is right who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded by worry, fret and anxiety. Finish every day, and be done with it. You have done what you could.
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What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, and yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.
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You cannot give anything to a magnanimous person. After you have served him, he at once puts you in debt by his magnanimity.
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Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth. This limbo and dust-hole of thought is presided over by a certain reason, too.
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There are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine egotists. It is a disease that, like influenza, falls on all constitutions. In the distemper known to physicians as chorea, the patient sometimes turns round, and continues to spin slowly in one spot. Is egotism a metaphysical varioloid of this malady?
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I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.
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Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature in darkness and light in heat and cold in the ebb and flow of water in male and female in the equation of quantity and quality in the fluids of the animal body in the systole an
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Self-trust is the first secret of success.
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Cultivate an attitude of gratitude, of giving and forgiving. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
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