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I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is doing today.
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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Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the government of worse men and the like regret is suggested to all the auditors, as the penalty of abstaining to speak,--that they shall hear worse orators than themselves.
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As we refine, our checks become finer. If we rise to spiritual culture, the antagonism takes a spiritual form.
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There is really no insurmountable barrier save your own inherent weakness of purpose.
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The religion which is to guide and fulfill the present and coming ages, whatever else it be, must be intellectual. The scientific mind must have a faith which is science.
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What is it men love in Genius, but its infinite hope, which degrades all it has done? Genius counts all its miracles poor and short. Its own idea it never executed.
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The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
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But we need not fear that we can lose any thing by the progress of the soul. The soul may be trusted to the end.
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Among the multitude of scholars and authors, we feel no hallowing presence we are sensible of a knack and skill rather than of inspiration they have a light, and know not whence it comes, and call it their own their talent is some exaggerated faculty, some overgrown member, so that their strength is a disease.
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We change whether we like it or not.
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What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived
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We must not tamper with the organic motion of the soul.
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Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.
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Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry.
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Commerce is of trivial import love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.
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The world is full of judgment-days, and into every assembly that a man enters, in every action he attempts, he is gauged and stamped.
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He in whom the love of truth predominates . . . submits to the inconvenience of suspense and imperfect opinion but he is a candidate for truth . . . and respects the highest law of his being.
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Headwinds are sore vexations and the more passengers the sorer.
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It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men.
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There are two laws discreteNot reconciled,Law for man, and law for thing.
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Do not craze yourself with thinking, but go about your business anywhere.
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