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You must let go of a thing for a new one to come to you.
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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As every pool reflects the image of the sun, so every thought and thing restores us an image and creature of the supreme Good. Theuniverse is perforated by a million channels for his activity. All things mount and mount.
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Power and speed be hands and feet.
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The people are to be taken in very small doses.
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It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men in their religion in their education in their pursuits their modes of living their association in their property in their speculative views.
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Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.
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That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.
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The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.
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He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard.
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[A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand.
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Surely nobody would be a charlatan, who could afford to be sincere.
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Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in. Embark, and the romance quits our vessel, and hangs on every other sail in the horizon.
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The only joy in his being mine, is that the not mine is mine.
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Spring still makes spring in the mind When sixty years are told: Love wakes anew this throbbing heart, And we are never old Over the winter glaciers I see the summer glow And through the wind-piled snowdrift The warm rosebuds below.
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Action is the process whereby what is not fully formed passes into expressive consciousness.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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For the existing world is not a dream, and cannot with impunity be treated as a dream neither is it a disease but it is the ground on which you stand, it is the mother of whom you were born.
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The only reward of virtue is virtue.
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Henceforth, please God, forever I forego the yolk of men's opinions. I will be light-hearted as a bird and live with God. I find him in the bottom of my heart, and I hear continually his voice therein.
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It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.
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The education of the will is the object of our existence.
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