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It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters, that whoever can speak can sing. So, probably, every man is eloquent once in his life. Our temperaments differ in capacity of heat, or
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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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
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We might as easily reprove the east wind, or the frost, as a political party, whose members, for the most part, could give no account of their position, but stand for the defence of those interests in which they find themselves.
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Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature.
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Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great.
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I remember the thought which occurred to me when some ingenious and spiritual foreigners came to America, was, Have you been victimized in being brought hither?--or, prior to that, answer me this, Are you victimizable?
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Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.
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Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life.
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Fear always springs from ignorance.
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A weed is a plant we've found no use for yet.
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