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Great men are sincere.
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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You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.
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Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do, instead of converting it into the obedient spiracle ofyour character and aims.
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Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.
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Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.
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There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works.
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That which builds is better than that which is built.
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Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the sufferer if not, attend your own work, and already the evil begins to be repaired.
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If you meet a sectary, or a hostile partisan, never recognize the dividing lines but meet on what common ground remains,--if onlythat the sun shines, and the rain rains for both the area will widen very fast, and ere you know it the boundary mountains, on which the eye had fastened, have melted into air.
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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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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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Romeo, of dead, should be cut up into little stars to make the heavens fine. Life, with this pair, has no other aim, asks no more,than Juliet,--than Romeo.
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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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The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation when memory came, it was experience when mind acted, it was knowledge when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.
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A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet of those to come, and the harbinger of a greater friend.
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Life is not intellectual or critical, but sturdy. Its chief good is for well-mixed people who can enjoy what they find, without question.
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Do what you're afraid to do.
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We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.
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The household is a school of power. There, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life.
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