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Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.
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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What we commonly call man, the eating, drinking, planting, counting man, does not, as we know him, represent himself, but misrepresents himself. Him we do not respect, but the soul, whose organ he is, would he let it appear through his action, would make our knees bend.
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Imitation cannot go above its model.
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By God, I will not obey this filthy enactment!
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No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.
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A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill.
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He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that.
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Ability without honor has no value.
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Every young man is prone to be misled by the suggestions of his own ill-founded ambition which he mistakes for the promptings of asecret genius, and thence dreams of unrivaled greatness.
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Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.
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In England every man you meet is some man's son in America, he may be some man's father.
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There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.
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The world exists for the education of each man.
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Money often costs too much, and power and pleasure are not cheap.
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Manners are the happy ways of doing things each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.
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Do not craze yourself with thinking, but go about your business anywhere.
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For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word, a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem.
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The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.
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Words are alive. Cut them and they bleed.
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In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
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As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions.
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