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Meet your failure nobly, and it will not differ from success.
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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Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.
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It is a capital blunder as you discover, when another man recites his charities.
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Nature is saturated with Deity.
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The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him.
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Where the banana grows man is sensual and cruel.
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A good deal of our politics is physiological.
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Nature tells every secret once.
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Society cannot do without cultivated men. As soon as the first wants are satisfied, the higher wants become imperative.
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Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. The mind does not create what it perceives, anymore than the eye creates the rose.
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Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching.
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The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
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I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever inly rejoices me and the heart apoints.
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When I behold a rich landscape, it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity.
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Obedience alone gives the right to command.
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I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.
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The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight.
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What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects.
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In the moment when you make the least petition to God, though it be but a silent wish that he may approve you, or add one moment to your life,--do you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought? In that act, the soul stands alone with God, and Jesus is no more present to your mind than your brother or your child.
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