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An actually existing fly is more important than a possibly existing angel.
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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Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.
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I always seem to suffer some loss of faith on entering cities.
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Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.
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The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the mode of that spontaneity. God enters by a private door into every individual.
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Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.
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I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.
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God is our name for the last generalization to which we can arrive.
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The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.
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When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
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Rude poets of the tavern hearth, squandering your unquoted mirth, which keeps the ground, and never soars, while jake retorts, and reuben roars tough and screaming, as birch-bark, goes like bullet to its mark while the solid curse and jeer never balk the waiting ear.
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Where there is no vision a people perish.
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We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves.
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Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and grow up slaves.
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Let not the tie be mercenary, though the service is measured in money. Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.
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It is easy to see that what is best written or done by genius in the world, was no man's work but came by wide social labor, whena thousand wrought like one, sharing the same impulse.
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The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling.
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We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether... The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.
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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the sea.
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Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
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