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He only is a well-made man who has a good determination.
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
Waldo Emerson
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The Buddhist, who thanks no man, who says Do not flatter your benefactors, but who, in his conviction that every good deed can by no possibility escape its reward, will not deceive the benefactor by pretending that he has done more than he should, is a Transcendentalist.
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Could Shakespeare give a theory of Shakespeare?
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Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.
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We cannot forgive another for not being ourselves.
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Nature will not let us fret and fume. She does not like our benevolence or our learning much better than she likes our frauds andwars. When we come out of the caucus, or the bank, or the abolition-convention, or the temperance-meeting, or the transcendental club, into the fields and woods, she says to us, so hot? my little Sir.
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Every word was once a poem. Every new relation is a new word.
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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.
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Genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
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All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.
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The highest Beauty should be plain set.
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Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.
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O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.
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If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.
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Friendship is an order of nobility from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.
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The highest compact we can make with our fellow is - Let there be truth between us two forevermore.
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In the moment when you make the least petition to God, though it be but a silent wish that he may approve you, or add one moment to your life,--do you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought? In that act, the soul stands alone with God, and Jesus is no more present to your mind than your brother or your child.
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There are days when the great are near us, when there is no frown on their brow, no condescension even when they take us by the hand, and we share their thought.
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