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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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Life is a search after power and this is an element with which the world is so saturated,-there is no chink or crevice in which it is not lodged,-that no honest seeking goes unrewarded.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
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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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No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
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I have heard that stiff people lose something of their awkwardness under high ceilings, and in spacious halls. I think, sculptureand painting have an effect to teach us manners, and abolish hurry.
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The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
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All great men come out of the middle classes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears but a court as of angels, a public not to be bribed, not to be entreated, and not to be overawed, decides upon every man's title to fame.
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We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.
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The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.
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Whatever appeals to the imagination, by transcending the ordinary limits of human ability, wonderfully encourages and liberates us.
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The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture. The continent we inhabit is to be physic andfood for our mind, as well as our body. The land, with its tranquilizing, sanative influences, is to repair the errors of a scholastic and traditional education, and bring us to just relations with men and things.
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[D]ivine Providence... keeps the universe open in every direction to the soul.
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Divine persons are character born, or, to borrow a phrase from Napoleon, they are victory organized.
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I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the luster out of fiction.
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Not in his goals but in his transitions, man is great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be an opener of doors
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Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a great city, and no man knows what is safe, or where it will end.
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The evolution of a highly destined society must be moral it must run in the grooves of the celestial wheels.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I do not speak with any fondness but the language of coolest history, when I say that Boston commands attention as the town whichwas appointed in the destiny of nations to lead the civilization of North America.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
