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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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The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
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Man sheds grief as his skin sheds rain.
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We are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn betrays its ancestor.
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This very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.
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We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.
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We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates. We read the quotation with his eyes, andfind a new and fervent sense as a passage from one of the poets, well recited, borrows new interest from the rendering. As the journals say, the italics are ours.
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Idealism sees the world in God. It beholds the whole circle of persons and things, of actions and events, of country and religion,not as painfully accumulated, atom after atom, act after act, in an aged creeping Past, but as one vast picture, which God paints on the instant eternity, for the contemplation of the soul.
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The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach that nature's dice are always loaded that in her heaps and rubbish are concealed sure and useful results.
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Great men are sincere.
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The wise skeptic does not teach doubt but how] to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting.
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The religion which is to guide and fulfill the present and coming ages, whatever else it be, must be intellectual. The scientific mind must have a faith which is science.
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The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.
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Really, all things and persons are related to us, but according to our nature, they act on us not at once, but in succession, andwe are made aware of their presence one at a time. All persons, all things which we have known, are here present, and many more than we see the world is full.
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We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.
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To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul. A true conversion, a true Christ, is now, as always, to be madeby the reception of beautiful sentiments.
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If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.
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We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
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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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Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
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