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What is originality? It is being one's self, and reporting accurately what we see and are.
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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I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
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Say, what other metre is it Than the meeting of the eyes? Nature poureth into nature Through the channels of that feature Riding on the ray of sight, Fleeter far than whirlwinds go, Or for service, or delight, Hearts to hearts their meaning show.
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Genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
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Delicious is a just and firm encounter of two in a thought, in a feeling.
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My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never sympathize with me you can never know how much of me such a young child can take away. A few weeks ago I accounted myself a very rich man, and now the poorest of all.
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Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it
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It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.
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Nature is upheld by antagonism.
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The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
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What is there of the divine in a load of brick? What ... in a barber shop? ... Much. All.
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Tomorrow is a new day begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.
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Although this garrulity of advising is born with us, I confess that life is rather a subject of wonder, than of didactics. So muchfate, so much irresistible dictation from temperament and unknown inspiration enter into it, that we doubt we can say anything out of our own experience whereby to help each other.
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Speak the affirmative emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject.
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Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyph to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life before he apprehends it as truth.
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Life is an ecstasy. Life is sweet as nitrous oxide.
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The key to every man is his thought.
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The Times are the masquerade of the eternities trivial to the dull, tokens of noble and majestic agents to the wise the receptacle in which the Past leaves its history the quarry out of which the genius of today is building up the Future.
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I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.Instead of the gong for dinner, let us hear a whistle from the Spartan fife.
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Money is of no value it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender.
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