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The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.
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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A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
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Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.
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The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.
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Life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour.
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You cannot make a cheap palace.
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Nature encourages no looseness pardons no errors.
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[A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poverty demoralizes. A man in debt is so far a slave and Wall-street thinks it easy for a millionaire to be a man of his word, aman of honor, but, that, in failing circumstances, no man can be relied on to keep his integrity.
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Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.
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Women, more than all, are the element and kingdom of illusion. Being fascinated, they fascinate.
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A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so much as a leg or a finger, they will drown him.
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The hero is suffered to be himself.
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Mankind divides itself into two classes,--benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast the first a handful.
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The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency.
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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
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Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul.
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Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I can believe a miracle because I can raise my own arm. I can believe a miracle because I can remember. I can believe it because I can speak and be understood by you.
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Let a man then know his worth and keep things under his feet.
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How much of human life is lost in waiting.
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