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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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Astrology is astronomy brought down to Earth and applied toward the affairs of men.
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No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton, Laplace, are not new men, or a new kind of men, but that Thales, Anaximenes, Hipparchus, Empodocles, Aristorchus, Pythagorus, Oenipodes, had anticipated them.
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All necessary truth is its own evidence.
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Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might.
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He that loveth maketh his own the grandeur he loves
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Men are what their mothers made them. You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckabuck why it does not make cashmere as to expect poetry from this engineer or a chemical discovery from that jobber.
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Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate debt, which consumes so much time, which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base, is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone, and is needed most by those who suffer from it most.
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Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms.
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A cheerful intelligent face is the end of culture, and success enough. For it indicates the purpose of Nature and wisdom attained.
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Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and grow up slaves.
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The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those perverse tendencies and gloomy insanities in which fine intellects sometimes lose themselves. A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still convertible. If that sense is lost, his fellow-men can do little for him.
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The walking of Man is falling forwards.
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By God, I will not obey this filthy enactment!
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One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and are disappointed and angry if we find that we are premature, and that their watches are slower than ours. In fact, the only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion.
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All promise outruns performance.
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No matter how often defeated, you are born to victory.
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When it's dark enough men see stars.
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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.
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We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
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So far as a person thinks they are free.
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