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We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition, whilst all later teachings are tuitions.
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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R. W. Emerson
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The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.
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Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it.
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As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods.
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Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.
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Oh, be my friend, and teach me to be thine!
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Hume's doctrine was that the circumstances vary, the amount of happiness does not that the beggar cracking fleas in the sunshine under a hedge, and the duke rolling by in his chariot, the girl equipped for her first ball, and the orator returning triumphant from the debate, had different means, but the same quantity of pleasant excitement.
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A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.
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Every action has an ancestor of a thought.
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The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power--the gentleman.
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