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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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R. W. Emerson
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Good nature is stronger than tomahawks.
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The secret of fortune is joy in our hands. Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide. Him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him because he did not need it.
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Art is a jealous mistress and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.
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I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.
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It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive, the character, the secret self. We call the tree good from its fruits, and the man, from his works.
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Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago, but it is put to better use.
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Begin and proceed on a settled conviction that but little is permitted to any man to do or to know, and if he complies with the first grand laws, he shall do well.
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The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home. We imitate and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind?
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What is excellent, As God lives, is permanent Hearts are dust, hearts' loves remain, Heart's love will meet thee again.
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Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.
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The idea of God ends in a paltry Methodist meeting-house.
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Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare.
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But I shall hear without pain, that I play the courtier very ill, and talk of that which I do not well understand.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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Luckily for us, now that steam has narrowed the Atlantic to a strait, the nervous, rocky West is intruding a new and continental element into the national mind, as we shall yet have an American genius.
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The most Indian thing about the Indian is surely not his moccasins or his calumet, his wampum or his stone hatched, but traits of character and sagacity, skill, or passion.
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Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up
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In every situation do the thing you fear. If you do the thing you fear, the death of fear is certain.
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The language of the street is always strong.
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The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.
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