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People who know how to act are never preachers.
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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Each man has an aptitude born with him. Do your work.
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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.
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A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree.
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He is the rich man in whom the people are rich, and he is the poor man in whom the people are poor and how to give access to themasterpieces of art and nature, is the problem of civilization.
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Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.
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The inmost in due time becomes the outmost.
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What school, college, or lecture bring men depends on what men bring to carry it home in.
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Every man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has changed his market cart into a chariot of the sun.
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The city is recruited from the country.
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We cannot forgive another for not being ourselves.
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People wish to be settled only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.
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In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place.
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Culture is one thing and varnish is another.
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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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The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.
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Accept your genius and say what you think.
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Beauty through my senses stole I yielded myself to the perfect whole.
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Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.
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It is a capital blunder as you discover, when another man recites his charities.
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