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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
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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy. ... One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye it transcends speech it is the bodily symbol of identity.
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The shows of the day, the dewy morning, the rainbow, mountains, orchards in blossom, stars, moonlight, shadows in still water, andthe like, if too eagerly hunted, become shows merely, and mock us with their unreality.
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The intellectual man requires a fine bait the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.
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A man must consider what a blindman's-buff is this game of conformity.
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Everything in nature goes by law, and not by luck.
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I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever inly rejoices me and the heart apoints.
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The gentleman is a man of truth, lord of his own actions, and expressing that lordship in his behavior, not in any manner dependent and servile either on persons, or opinions, or possessions.
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The motive of science was the extension of man, on all sides, into Nature, till his hands should touch the stars, his eyes see through the earth, his ears understand the language of beast and bird, and the sense of the wind and, through his sympathy, heaven and earth should talk with him. But that is not our science.
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All history is biography.
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The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.
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Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
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We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition, whilst all later teachings are tuitions.
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We are imprisoned in life in the company of persons powerfully unlike us.
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Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.
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Thy dangerous glances make women of men new-born, we are melting into nature again.
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They think him the best dressed man, whose dress is so fit for his use that you cannot notice or remember to describe it.
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The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry.
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The life of man is a self-evolving circle.
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The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded. It is a doctrine alike of the oldest and of the newest philosophy, that man is one, and that you cannot injure any member, without a sympathetic injury to all the members
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