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Power is the first good.
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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The secret is the answer to all that has been, all that is, and all that will ever be.
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It is not an arbitrary decree of God, but in the nature of man, that a veil shuts down on the facts of to-morrow for the soul will not have us read any other cipher than that of cause and effect. By this veil, which curtains events, it instructs the children of men to live in to-day.
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He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand.
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The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.
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Discontent is want of self-reliance it is infirmity of will.
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Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul
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And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.
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We pray to be conventional. But the wary Heaven takes care you shall not be, if there is anything good in you. Dante was very badcompany, and was never invited to dinner.
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Let us leave hurry to slaves.
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The world is the ring of his spells, And the play of his miracles.
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That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.
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Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
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You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.
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That you are fair or wise is vain, Or strong, or rich, or generous You must have also the untaught strain That sheds beauty on the rose.
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I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.
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The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
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There are two laws discreteNot reconciled,Law for man, and law for thing.
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Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching.
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
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A man becomes what he thinks about most of the time
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