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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
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Massachusetts
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Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.
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In the Fiji islands, it appears, cannibalism is now familiar. They eat thier own wives and children. We only devour widows' houses, and great merchants outwit and absorb the substance of small ones, and every man feeds on his neighbor's labor if he can. It is a milder form of cannibalism.
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To believe in luck ... is skepticism.
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The populace drags down the gods to their own level.
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One can never truly savor success until first tasting adversity.
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The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial speech.
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Live well, learn plenty, laugh often, love much.
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All the world loves a lover.
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What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from the Heroic or Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans, four or five centuries later? What but this, that every man passes personally through a Grecian period.
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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
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The soul lets no man go without some visitations and holy-days of a diviner presence.
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I think all men know better than they do know that the institutions we so volubly commend are go-carts and baubles but they darenot trust their presentiments.
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Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.
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How can he [today's writer] be honored, when he does not honor himself when he loses himself in the crowd when he is no longer the lawgiver, but the sycophant, ducking to the giddy opinion of a reckless public.
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For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?
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Speak the affirmative emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause.
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Let a man then know his worth and keep things under his feet.
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Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.
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