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A day is a miniature eternity.

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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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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The walking of Man is falling forwards.
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The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.
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Every individual man has a bias which he must obey, and...it is only as he feels and obeys this that he rightly develops and attains his legitimate power in the world. It is his magnetic needle, which points always in one direction to his proper path.... He is never happy nor strong until he finds it, keeps it.
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Life is in short cycles or periods we are quickly tired, but we have rapid rallies. A man is spent by his work, starved, prostrate he will not lift his hand to save his life he can never think more. He sinks into deep sleep and wakes with renewed youth, with hope, courage, fertile in resources, and keen for daring adventure.
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A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price.
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When the spirit is not master of the world, then it is its dupe.
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A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.
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Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.
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All natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence.
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Society has really no graver interest than the well-being of the literary class.
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Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of beat.
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Most people, who have quit smoking, have had at least one unsuccessful try in the past. It is not important how many times you try to quit. The only important thing is, that eventually you stay quit
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A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.
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The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.
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The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.
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It is never too late to do right.
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But genius looks forward: the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates.
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I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victimized in being brought hither?--or, prior to that, answer me this, Are you victimizable?
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I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called history is.
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