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Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn nature's oldest force is as good as new.
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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It is sublime to think and say of another, I need never meet, or speak, or write to him: we need not reinforce ourselves, or send tokens of remembrance I rely on him as on myself: if he did thus and thus, I know it was right.
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Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential. Without it, he is not yet man. Without it, thought can never ripen into truth.
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Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.
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We are always getting ready to live, but never living... The wave moves onward but the particles of which it is composed do not... It cannot be but that at intervals throughout society there are real men intermixed . . . as the carpenter puts one iron bar in his bannister for every five or six wooden ones.
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Love should make joy but our benevolence is unhappy. Our Sunday-schools, and churches, and pauper-societies are yokes to the neck. We pain ourselves to please nobody.
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There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word.
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Sometimes we receive the power to say yes to life. Then peace enters us and makes us whole.
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Those who have ruled human destinies, like planets, for thousands of years, were not handsome men.
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The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.
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Best masters for the young writer and speaker are the fault- finding brothers and sisters at home who will not spare him, but willpick and cavil, and tell the odious truth.
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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions.
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Do not follow where the path may lead.
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Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.
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The finest poems of the world have been expedients to get bread.
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Every opinion reacts on him who utters it.
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Washington, where an insignificant individual may trespass on a nation's time.
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