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No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.
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
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A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us
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Great believers are always reckoned infidels, impracticable, fantastic, atheistic, and really men of no account. The spiritualist finds himself driven to express his faith by a series of skepticisms.
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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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If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.
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No facts are to me sacred none are profane I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.
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Life has a way of demanding that you live it.
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Genius has no taste for weaving sand.
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I now require this of all pictures, that they domesticate me, not that they dazzle me. Pictures must not be too picturesque. Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing. All great actions have been simple, and all great pictures are.
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The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic importance of their contents to the constant mind of man.
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The intellect,-that is miraculous! Who has it, has the talisman: his skin and bones, though they were of the color of night, are transparent, and the everlasting stars shine through, with attractive beams.
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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
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I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me.
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New York is a sucked orange. All conversation is at an end, when we have discharged ourselves of a dozen personalities, domestic or imported, which make up our American existence.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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Now every one must do after his kind, be he asp or angel, and these must.
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Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.
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What is civilization? I answer, the power of good women.
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