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In daily life what distinguishes the master is the using those materials he has, instead of looking about for what are more renowned, or what others have used well.
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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All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. We quote not only books and proverbs, but arts, sciences, religion, customs, and laws nay, we quote temples and houses, tables and chairs, by imitation.
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There comes a time in each man's education in which he comes to the conclusion that envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide, and society in in conspiracy against each one of its members.
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The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.
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The vanishing, volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is every moment converted into the adamantine.
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All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature.
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Delicious is a just and firm encounter of two in a thought, in a feeling.
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Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks he is free.
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Some will always be above others.
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The soul is the perceiver and the revealer of truth.
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When some external event raises your spirits and you think good days are preparing for you, do not believe it. It can never be so. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
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What is it men love in Genius, but its infinite hope, which degrades all it has done? Genius counts all its miracles poor and short. Its own idea it never executed.
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What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?
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There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth it is the beginning of wisdom.
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The Soul rules over matter. Matter may pass away like a mote in the sunbeam, may be absorbed into the immensity of God, as a mistis absorbed into the heat of the Sun--but the soul is the kingdom of God, the abode of love, of truth, of virtue.
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The world globes itself in a drop of dew.
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Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.
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I covet truth beauty is unripe childhood's cheat I leave it behind with the games of youth.
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Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.
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The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.
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We must be our own before we can be another's.
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