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Teach the children! It is painting in fresco.
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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With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy. Round it all the muses sing.
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I can believe a miracle because I can raise my own arm. I can believe a miracle because I can remember. I can believe it because I can speak and be understood by you.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.
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Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
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In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity.
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The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight.
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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
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Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized now for two hundred years.
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Pride is handsome, economical pride eradicates so many vices, letting none subsist but itself, that it seems as if it were a great gain to exchange vanity for pride.
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What we call results are beginnings.
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There is really no insurmountable barrier save your own inherent weakness of purpose.
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A cheerful intelligent face is the end of culture, and success enough. For it indicates the purpose of Nature and wisdom attained.
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To be great, you must be misunderstood
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The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself is to quote one.
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The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go.
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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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We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition, whilst all later teachings are tuitions.
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I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
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We can only obey our own polarity.
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