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One thing is forever good That one thing is Success.
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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Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a sign of our times, conspicuous to the coarsest observer, that many intelligent and religious persons withdraw themselves from the common labors and competitions of the market and the caucus, and betake themselves to a certain solitary and critical way of living, from which no solid fruit has yet appeared to justify their separation.
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The picture waits for my verdict it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.
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It does not to dwell on dreams and forget to live, but it is equally foolish to ignore the past – never forget.
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There are two laws discreteNot reconciled,Law for man, and law for thing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To educate the wise man, the State exists and with the appearance of the wise man, the State expires. The appearance of charactermakes the state unnecessary. The wise man is the State.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Manners are the happy ways of doing things each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.
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Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome.
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As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
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The right eloquence needs no bell to call the people together, and no constable to keep them.
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Astronomy is a cold, desert science, with all its pompous figures,-depends a little too much on the glass-grinder, too little on the mind. 'T is of no use to show us more planets and systems. We know already what matter is, and more or less of it does not signify.
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If the gatherer gathers too-much, Nature takes out of the man what she puts into his chest swells the estate, but kills the owner. Nature hates, monopolies and exceptions.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best nations are those most widely related and navigation, as effecting a world-wide mixture, is the most potent advancer ofnations.
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For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word, a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem.
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Do not follow where the path may lead.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am primarily engaged to myself to be a public servant of all the gods, to demonstrate to all men that there is intelligence andgood will at the heart of all things, and even higher and yet higher leadings. These are my engagements how can your law further or hinder me in what I shall do to men?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The clergyman who lives in the city may have piety, but he must have taste.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best of life is conversation.
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If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
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