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Never try to make anyone like you: you know, and God knows, that one of you is enough.
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
Waldo Emerson
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Tis weak and vicious people who cast the blame on Fate. The right use of Fate is to bring up our conduct to the loftiness of nature.
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Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes: it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is rich, it is scientific but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something else is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts.
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The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the low and offensive.
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To educate the wise man, the State exists and with the appearance of the wise man, the State expires. The appearance of charactermakes the state unnecessary. The wise man is the State.
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He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself.
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We may be partial, but Fate is not.
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
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Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it.
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Our strength grows out of our weakness.
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Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
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It is a capital blunder as you discover, when another man recites his charities.
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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
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But I shall hear without pain, that I play the courtier very ill, and talk of that which I do not well understand.
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