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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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Literature is eavesdropping.
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Now that is the wisdom of a man, in every instance of his labor, to hitch his wagon to a star, and see his chore done by the gods themselves. That is the way we are strong, by borrowing the might of the elements. The forces of steam, gravity, galvanism, light, magnets, wind, fire, serve us day by day and cost us nothing.
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The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out, and we are become timorous desponding whimperers. We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other.
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Do that which you fear to do, and the fear will die.
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Do your thing, and I shall know you.
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I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the luster out of fiction.
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The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tablets yet unbroken: The word by seers or sibyls told, In groves of oak or fanes of gold, Still floats upon the morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind.
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The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides.
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I do not wish to please him I wish that he should wish to please me.
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Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.
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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
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Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.
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The wise skeptic does not teach doubt but how] to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting.
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All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world.
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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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Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go, and is only right admirable when to all its beauty and speed a subserviency to the will, like that of walking, is added.
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Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome.
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Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
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I am become a transparent eyeball.
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Every man is grave alone.
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