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Why has my motley diary no jokes? Because it is a soliloquy and every man is grave alone.
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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Fear God, and where you go men shall think they walk in hallowed cathedrals.
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It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'
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The soul is the perceiver and the revealer of truth.
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Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential. Without it, he is not yet man. Without it, thought can never ripen into truth.
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Words are finite organs of the infinite mind. They cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth. They break, chop, and impoverish it.
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Friendship is an order of nobility from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.
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A friend, therefore, is a sort of paradox in nature. I who alone am, I who see nothing in nature whose existence I can affirm with equal evidence to my own, behold now the semblance of my being, in all its height, variety, and curiosity, reiterated in a foreign form so that a friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
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A good indignation makes an excellent speech.
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What matters most is not what is behind us or before us, but what is within us.
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Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
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Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.
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To clothe the fiery thought In simple words succeeds, For still the craft of genius is To mask a king in weeds.
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Though we love goodness and not stealing, yet also we love freedom and not preaching.
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There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are a transfusion takes place he is you, and you are he then is a teaching and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever lose the benefit.
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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.
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Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.
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A man is a god in ruins.
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Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply,- 'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.
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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.
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