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The picture waits for my verdict it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.
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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Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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To clothe the fiery thought In simple words succeeds, For still the craft of genius is To mask a king in weeds.
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The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them.
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Miracle comes to the miraculous, not to the arithmetician.
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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
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But harder still it has proved to resist and rule the dragon Money, with his paper wings. Chancellors and Boards of Trade, Pitt, Peel, and Bobinson, and their parliaments, and their whole generation, adopted false principles, and went to their graves in the belief that they were enriching the country which they were impoverishing.
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Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.
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The world is young: the former great men call to us affectionately. We too must write Bibles, to unite again the heavens and the earthly world.
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Be a gift and a benediction.
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We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
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Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle everything else is an intrigue.
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I am so much a Unitarian as this: that I believe the human mind can admit but one God, and that every effort to pay religious homage to more than one being goes to take away all right ideas.
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Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
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Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty,--familiarity with danger enabling him to estimate the danger. He sees how much is the risk, and is not afflicted with imagination knows practically Marshal Saxe's rule, that every soldier killed costs the enemy his weight in lead.
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The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land.
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If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways, I keep and pass and turn again.
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That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.
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If we walk in the woods, we must feed mosquitoes.
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What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects.
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We do what we can, and then make a theory to prove our performance the best.
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