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Every word was once a poem. Every new relation is a new word.
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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Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
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There is simply the rose it is perfect in every moment of its existence.
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The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy.
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I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant. Now we reckon them as bank-days, by some debt which is to be paid us, or which we are to pay, or some pleasure we are to taste.
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When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something ... he learns his ignorance, is cured of the insanity of conceit has got moderation and real skill.
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When the vain speaker has sat down, and the people say 'what a good speech,' it still takes an ounce to balance an ounce.
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The house praises the carpenter.
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People seem sheathed in their tough organization.
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If I made laws for Shakers or a school, I should gazette every Saturday all the words they were wont to use in reporting religious experience, as spiritual life, God, soul, cross, etc., and if they could not find new ones next week, they might remain silent.
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Thought dissolves the material universe by carrying the mind up into a sphere where all is plastic.
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Every man who would do anything well, must come to it from a higher ground.
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The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do.
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There is nothing in history to parallel the influence of Jesus Christ.
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Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.
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Though many painters and sculptors talk glibly of going in for photography, you will find that very few of them can ever make a picture by photography they lack the science, technical knowledge, and above all the practice. Most people think they can play tennis, shoot, write novels, and photograph as well as any other person - until they try
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We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.
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Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a century, and dwarfs an age to an hour.
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Honor and fortune exist for him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great, always feels himself in the presence of high causes.
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Let us advance on Chaos and the Dark
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We don't grow old. When we cease to grow, we become old.
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