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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
Waldo Emerson
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The unbelief of the age is attested by the loud condemnation of trifles.
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Genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
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It is the dissenter, the theorist, the aspirant, who is quitting this ancient domain to embark on seas of adventure, who engages our interest. Omitting then for the present all notice of the stationary class, we shall find that the movement party divides itself into two classes, the actors, and the students.
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To me, however, the question of the times resolved itself into a practical question of the conduct of life. How shall I live? We are incompetent to solve the times. Our geometry cannot span the huge orbits of the prevailing ideas, behold their return, and reconcile their opposition. We can only obey our own polarity.
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A sublime hope cheers ever the faithful heart, that elsewhere, in other regions of the universal powers, souls are now acting, enduring and daring, which can love us, and which we can love.
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Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
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The world exists for the education of each man.
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Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great.
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Vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last,--a long way leading nowhere.
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As we refine, our checks become finer. If we rise to spiritual culture, the antagonism takes a spiritual form.
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The borrower runs in his own debt.
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