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The power of a man increases steadily by continuing in one direction.
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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But a public oration is an escapade, a non-committal, an apology, a gag, and not a communication, not a speech, not a man.
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Every man's nature is a sufficient advertisement to him of the character of his fellows.
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Fashion, though in a strange way, represents all manly virtue. It is virtue gone to seed: it is a kind of posthumous honor. It does not often caress the great, but the children of the great: it is a hall of the Past.
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The order of things consents to virtue.
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My life is superficial, takes no root in the deep world I ask, When shall I die, and be relieved of the responsibility of seeinga Universe which I do not use? I wish to exchange this flash-of-lightning faith for continuous daylight, this fever-glow for a benign climate.
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The attraction and superiority of California are in its days. It has better days & more of them, than any other country.
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It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive, the character, the secret self. We call the tree good from its fruits, and the man, from his works.
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It is a capital blunder as you discover, when another man recites his charities.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.
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Fear God, and where you go men shall think they walk in hallowed cathedrals.
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Great conversation ... requires an absolute running of two souls into one.
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