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The President proclaims war, and those Senators who dissent are not those who know better, but those who can afford to...Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
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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Every man who would do anything well, must come to it from a higher ground.
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There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears but a court as of angels, a public not to be bribed, not to be entreated, and not to be overawed, decides upon every man's title to fame.
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The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.
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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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The world exists for the education of each man.
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Self-trust is the first secret of success.
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I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.
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Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.
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A child convinced against his will is of the same opinion still. The reward for a thing well done, is to have done it.
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Society does not love its unmaskers.
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Empirical science is apt to cloud the sight, and, by the very knowledge of functions and processes, to bereave the student of themanly contemplation of the whole.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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Blessed are those who have no talent!
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The remedy for all blunders, the cure of blindness, the cure of crime, is love.
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Look out! Behind you!
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Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.
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Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other.
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A sublime hope cheers ever the faithful heart, that elsewhere, in other regions of the universal powers, souls are now acting, enduring and daring, which can love us, and which we can love.
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