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To believe in luck ... is skepticism.

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
Skepticism
Luck
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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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From Washington, proverbially the city of distances, through all its cities, states, and territories, it is a country of beginnings, of projects, of designs, and expectations.
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Adult males are what their moms designed them.
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The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.
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Slavery it is that makes slavery freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.
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Astrology is astronomy brought down to Earth and applied toward the affairs of men.
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The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions.
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The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the sun and after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow ever the grass grows.
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My garden is a forest ledge Which older forest s bound The banks slope down to the blue lake-edge, Then plunge to depths profound!
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Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed.
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Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.
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The peace of the man who has forsworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace, but a canting impotence.
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Every man is as lazy as he dares to be.
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I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.
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The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.
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Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may well call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate.
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The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life.
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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it.
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That which builds is better than that which is built.
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There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live.
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