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The finest poems of the world have been expedients to get bread.
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 mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.
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Why should the way I feel depend on the thoughts in someone else's head?
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Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.
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The lord is the peasant that was, The peasant is the lord that shall be.
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Men are lenses through which we read our own minds.
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Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so.
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That man is idle who can do something better.
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If the East loves infinity, the West delights in boundaries.
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We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men aboutus are dupes. But life is a sincerity.
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The Oversoul is before Time, and Time, Father of all else, is one of his children.
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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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Accept your genius and say what you think.
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Isolation must precede true society.
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An answer in words is delusive it is really no answer to the questions you ask.
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What a new face courage puts on everything!
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The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith
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And, in fine, the ancient precept, Know thyself, and the modern precept, Study nature, become at last one maxim.
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