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Headwinds are sore vexations and the more passengers the sorer.
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 roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones they are what they are they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose it is perfect in every moment of its existence.
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Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the law-giver is before the law-receiver.
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What you persist in doing gets easier. The task hasn't changed, but your ability to do it has increased.
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There is a principle which is the basis of things, which all speech aims to say, and all action to evolve, a simple, quiet, undescribed, undescribable presence, dwelling very peacefully in us, our rightful lord: we are not to do, but to let do not to work, but to be worked upon.
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The soul answers never by words, but by the thing itself that is inquired after.
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Poets should be law-givers that is, the boldest lyric inspiration should not chide and insult, but should announce and lead the civil code, and the day's work.
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We must learn the language of facts. The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.
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Pride ruined the angels, Their shame them restores And the joy that is sweetest Lurks in stings of remorse.
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The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land.
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An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have the propensity to look for the good in every situation.
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Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle everything else is an intrigue.
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As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.
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Conversation is a game of circles.
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Heroism works in contradiction to the voice of mankind and in contradiction, for a time, to the voice of the great and good. Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual
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Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.
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We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.
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So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth whispers, 'I can.
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Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?
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