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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
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Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.
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The art of conversation, or the qualification for a good companion, is a certain self-control, which now holds the subject, now lets it go, with a respect for the emergencies of the moment.
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Where there is no vision a people perish.
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A man becomes what he thinks about most of the time
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Dreams and beasts are two keys by which we find out the keys of our own nature.
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When it comes to divide an estate, the politest men quarrel.
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The dearest events are summer-rain.
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Hidden away in the inner nature of the real man is the law of his life, and someday he will discover it and consciously make use of it. He will heal himself, make himself happy and prosperous, and life in an entirely different world. For he will have discovered that life is from within and not from without.
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Therefore is nature ever the ally of Religion: lends her all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment.
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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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So each man, like each plant, has his parasites. A strong, astringent, bilious nature has more truculent enemies than the slugs and moths that fret my leaves. Such a one has curculios, borers, knife-worms a swindler ate him first, then a client, then a quack, then smooth, plausible gentlemen, bitter and selfish as Moloch.
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I wish to speak with all respect of persons, but sometimes I must pinch myself to keep awake, and preserve the due decorum. They melt so fast into each other, that they are like grass and trees, and it needs an effort to treat them as individuals.
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Knowledge is the only elegance.
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Take the place and attitude to which you see your unquestionable right, and all men acquiesce.
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To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone.
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Man is the dwarf of himself.
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Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.
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The moral sense is always supported by the permanent interest of the parties. Else, I know not how, in our world, any good would ever get done.
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Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.
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I do not know what arguments mean in reference to any expression of a thought. I delight in telling what I think but if you ask me how I dare say so, or why it is so, I am the most helpless of men.
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