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When it's dark enough men see stars.
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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The lover of letters loves power too.
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Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
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Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.
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He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
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There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live.
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Senators and presidents have climbed so high with pain enough, not because they think the place specially agreeable, but as an apology for real worth, and to vindicate their manhood in our eyes. This conspicuous chair is their compensation to themselves for being of a poor, cold, hard nature.
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Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart!-it seems to say,-there is victory yet for all justice and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.
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Go, speed the stars of Thought On to their shining goals - The sower scatters broad his seed, The wheat thou strew'st be souls.
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The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
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Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.
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I will not live out of me I will not see with others' eyes My good is good, my evil ill I would be free.
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The house is a castle which the King cannot enter.
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