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A Judge may be a farmer but he is not to geld his own pigs.
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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A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.
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The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly.
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Poverty demoralizes. A man in debt is so far a slave and Wall-street thinks it easy for a millionaire to be a man of his word, aman of honor, but, that, in failing circumstances, no man can be relied on to keep his integrity.
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The virtue in most request is conformity.
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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.
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It's a luxury to be understood.
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Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.
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Self-trust is the first secret of success, the belief that if you are here the authorities of the universe put you here, and for cause, or with some task strictly appointed you in your constitution, and so long as you work at that you are well and successful
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All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world.
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The only thing that can grow is the thing you give energy to.
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The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
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The art of sculpture is long ago perished to any real effect... it is the game of a rude and youthful people, and not the manly labour of a wise and spiritual nation.
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Well, the world has a million writers. One would think, then, that good thought would be as familiar as air and water, and the gifts of each new hour would exclude the last. Yet we can count all our good books nay, I remember any beautiful verse for twenty years.
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Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a century, and dwarfs an age to an hour.
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The attraction and superiority of California are in its days. It has better days & more of them, than any other country.
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Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. We're so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside.
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There is a tendency in things to right themselves, and the war or revolution or bankruptcy that shatters rotten system, allows things to take a new and natural order.
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Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
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Our distrust is very expensive.
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Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown and distant star.
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