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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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Do your thing, and I shall know you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To me, however, the question of the times resolved itself into a practical question of the conduct of life. How shall I live? We are incompetent to solve the times. Our geometry cannot span the huge orbits of the prevailing ideas, behold their return, and reconcile their opposition. We can only obey our own polarity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
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A man builds a fine house and now he has a master, and a task for life.
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Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I feel some unwillingness to quit the remembrance of the past. With all the hope of the new I feel that we are leaving the old.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Englishman who has lost his fortune is said to have died of a broken heart.
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Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All
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Genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
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To eat bread is one thing to love the precepts of Christ and resolve to obey them is quite another.
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What is man born for but to be a Reformer, a Remaker of what man has made? A renouncer of lies a restorer of truth and good? Imitating that great Nature which embossoms us all, and which sleeps no moment on an old past, but every hour repairs herself, yielding us every morning a new day, with every breath a new life?
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We cannot let our angels go we do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in.
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There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.
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The great poet makes us feel our own wealth, and then we think less of his compositions. His best communication to our mind is to teach us to despise all he has done.
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Nothing is arbitrary, nothing is insulated in beauty. It depends forever on the necessary and the useful. The plumage of the bird, the mimic plumage of the insect, has a reason for its rich colors in the constitution of the animal. Fitness is so inseparable an accompaniment of beauty, that it, has been taken for it.
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One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.
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The only reward of virtue is virtue.
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The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
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We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause.
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