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Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man.
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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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim.
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In a world of infinite choice people are struggling to figure out what to do.
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London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.
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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
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How can we speak of the action of the mind under any divisions, as of its knowledge, of its ethics, of its works, and so forth, since it melts will into perception, knowledge into act? Each becomes the other. Itself alone is.
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Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
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Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.
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The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
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The soul contains the event that shall befall it, for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts and what we pray to ourselves for is always granted.
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The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.
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The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine. The simplicity of nature is not that which may be easily read but is inexhaustible. The last analysis can no wise be made.
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The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the low and offensive.
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There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty.
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Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.
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The world leaves no track in space, and the greatest action of man no mark in the vast idea.
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Popularity is for dolls.
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The dice of God are always loaded.
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I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever inly rejoices me and the heart apoints.
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The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
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These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a god- like ease and power.
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