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Each man has an aptitude born with him. Do your work.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
Biographer
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Essayist
Philosopher
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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
Aptitude
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Work
Men

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But a compassion for that which is not and cannot be useful and lovely, is degrading and futile.
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If a man carefully examine his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead. Such a creature is probably immortal.
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Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day.
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He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests he gives an independent, genuine verdict. You must court him: he does not court you. But the man is, as it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness.
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Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
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All history is biography.
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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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There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty.
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My life is superficial, takes no root in the deep world I ask, When shall I die, and be relieved of the responsibility of seeinga Universe which I do not use? I wish to exchange this flash-of-lightning faith for continuous daylight, this fever-glow for a benign climate.
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We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.
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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
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Very few of our race can be said to be yet finished men. We still carry sticking to us some remains of the preceding inferior quadruped organization. We call these millions men but they are not yet men. Half-engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all the music that can be brought to disengage him.
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The virtue you would like to have, assume it is already yours, appropriate it, enter into the part and live the character just as the great actor is absorbed in... the part he plays.
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A man in pursuit of greatness feels no little wants.
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We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.
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We know who is benevolent, by quite other means than the amount of subscriptions to soup-societies. It is only low merits that canbe enumerated.
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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
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If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience.
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Culture is one thing and varnish is another.
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Art is the need to create but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied hands, and of making cripples and monsters, such as all pictures and statues are. Nothing less than the creation of man and nature is its end.
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