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He who does a good deed is instantly ennobled. He who does a mean deed is by the action itself contracted.
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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Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Where do we find ourselves? In a series of which we do not know the extremes, and believe that it has none. We wake and find ourselves on a stair there are stairs below us, which we seem to have ascended there are stairs above us, many a one, which go upward and out of sight.
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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
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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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Good criticism is very rare and always precious.
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What is man born for but to be a Reformer, a Remaker of what man has made? A renouncer of lies a restorer of truth and good? Imitating that great Nature which embossoms us all, and which sleeps no moment on an old past, but every hour repairs herself, yielding us every morning a new day, with every breath a new life?
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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Luckily for us, now that steam has narrowed the Atlantic to a strait, the nervous, rocky West is intruding a new and continental element into the national mind, as we shall yet have an American genius.
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Times of heroism are generally times of terror, but the day never shines in which this element may not work.
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The evolution of a highly destined society must be moral it must run in the grooves of the celestial wheels.
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Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.
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Happy is the hearing man unhappy the speaking man.
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Only poetry inspires poetry.
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The law of nature is alternation for evermore. Each electrical state superinduces the opposite.
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Other world? There is no other world here or nowhere is the whole fact.
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Great men are sincere.
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We might as easily reprove the east wind, or the frost, as a political party, whose members, for the most part, could give no account of their position, but stand for the defence of those interests in which they find themselves.
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The statue is then beautiful when it begins to be incomprehensible, when it is passing out of criticism, and can no longer be defined by compass and measuring-wand, but demands an active imagination to go with it, and to say what it is in the act of doing.
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The virtue in most request is conformity.
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Man is physical as well as metaphysical, a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.
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