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No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.
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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Contemporary American psychiatrist It is a happy talent to know how to play.
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I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil.
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'Well,' said Red Jacket [to someone complaining that he had not enough time], 'I suppose you have all there is.'
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Action is the process whereby what is not fully formed passes into expressive consciousness.
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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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The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.
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Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching.
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We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition, whilst all later teachings are tuitions.
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There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome alwayswe are invited to work.
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I believe in Eternity. I can find Greece, Palestine, Italy, Spain, and the Islands, - the Genius and creative Principle of each and of all eras, in my own mind.
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What we call results are beginnings.
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The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
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Every individual man has a bias which he must obey, and...it is only as he feels and obeys this that he rightly develops and attains his legitimate power in the world. It is his magnetic needle, which points always in one direction to his proper path.... He is never happy nor strong until he finds it, keeps it.
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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
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I always seem to suffer some loss of faith on entering cities.
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Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.
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There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty.
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Ability without honor has no value.
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