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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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Some of your griefs you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you've endured From evils that never arrived.
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If any mention was made of homicide, madness, adultery, and intolerable tortures, we would let the church-bells ring louder, the church-organ swell its peal and drown the hideous sound. The sugar they raised was excellent: nobody tasted blood in it.
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Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
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Every sweet has its sour every evil its good.
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Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief in denying them.
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In science we have to consider two things: power and circumstance.
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We resent all criticism which denies us anything that lies in our line of advance.
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Fate is unpenetrated causes.
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Fear always springs from ignorance.
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I think I have done well, if I have acquired a new word from a good author and my business with him is to find my own, though itwere only to melt him down into an epithet or an image for daily use.
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Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.
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Life loiters at the book's first page,-- Ah! could we turn the leaf.
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I think the vice of our housekeeping is that it does not hold man sacred. The vice of government, the vice of education, the viceof religion, is one with that of the private life.
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And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.
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When private men shall act with original views, the lustre will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen.
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By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.
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The religion which is to guide and fulfill the present and coming ages, whatever else it be, must be intellectual. The scientific mind must have a faith which is science.
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We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.
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