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How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.
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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I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-borne treasures home.
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The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.
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Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
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Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens.
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As we are, so we do and as we do, so is it done to us we are the builders of our fortunes.
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The power of a man increases steadily by continuance in one direction. He becomes acquainted with the resistances and with his own tools increases his skill and strength and learns the favorable moments and favorable accidents.
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Do not spill thy soul in running hither and yon, grieving over the mistakes and the vices of others. The one person whom it is most necessary to reform is yourself.
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Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things?
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Tis weak and vicious people who cast the blame on Fate. The right use of Fate is to bring up our conduct to the loftiness of nature.
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There is also something excellent in every audience,--the capacity of virtue. They are ready to be beatified.
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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
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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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All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.
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The Greek epigram intimates that the force of love is not shown by the courting of beauty, but where the like desire is inflamed for one who is ill-favored.
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I am the owner of the sphere, Of the seven stars and the solar year, of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain, Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakespeare's strain.
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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk.
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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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The Soul rules over matter. Matter may pass away like a mote in the sunbeam, may be absorbed into the immensity of God, as a mistis absorbed into the heat of the Sun--but the soul is the kingdom of God, the abode of love, of truth, of virtue.
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