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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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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.
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Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life. People only see what they are prepared to see.
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If in the least particular, one could derange the order of nature, who would accept the gift of life?
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There is nothing in history to parallel the influence of Jesus Christ.
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No man has ever had a point of pride that was not injurious to him.
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Those who have ruled human destinies, like planets, for thousands of years, were not handsome men.
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The genius of life is friendly to the noble, and, in the dark, brings them friends from far.
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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
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Men are better than this theology.
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The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance.
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Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.
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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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Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book.
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The desire of gold is not for gold. It is not the love of much wheat, and wool and household stuff. It is the means of freedom and benefit.
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Meet your failure nobly, and it will not differ from success.
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Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.
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