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Divine persons are character born, or, to borrow a phrase from Napoleon, they are victory organized.
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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New York is a sucked orange. All conversation is at an end, when we have discharged ourselves of a dozen personalities, domestic or imported, which make up our American existence.
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An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.
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A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.
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The history of the genesis or the old mythology repeats itself in the experience of every child. He too is a demon or god thrown into a particular chaos, where he strives ever to lead things from disorder into order.
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No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, usages, and arts, of his times shall have no share.
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What is civilization? I answer, the power of good women.
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Each of us sees in others what we carry in our own hearts.
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The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go.
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Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.
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