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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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Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul. The spirit sports with time.
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Though we travel the world over to find beauty, we must carry it with us or we find it not . . . The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there is a great difference in beholders.
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Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.
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Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.
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How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!
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When some external event raises your spirits and you think good days are preparing for you, do not believe it. It can never be so. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
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Thy dangerous glances make women of men new-born, we are melting into nature again.
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Power is what they want, not candy-power to execute their design, power to give legs and feet, form and actuality to their thought which, to a clear-sighted man, appears the end for which the universe exists, and all its resources might be well applied.
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There are eyes, to be sure, that give no more admission into the man than blueberries.
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Divine persons are character born, or, to borrow a phrase from Napoleon, they are victory organized.
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Necessity does everything well.
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Power ceases in the instant of repose it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.
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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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The universal soul is the alone creator of the useful and the beautiful therefore to make anything useful or beautiful, the individual must be submitted to the universal mind.
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If a man is at heart just, then in so far is he God the safety of God, the immortality of God, the majesty of God do enter into that man with justice.
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My good hoe as it bites the ground revenges my wrongs, and I have less lust to bite my enemies. In the smoothing the rough hillocks, I smooth my temper.
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Do not follow where the path may lead.
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What is the hardest task in the world? To think.
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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
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I honor health as the first muse, and sleep as the condition of health. Sleep benefits mainly by the sound health it produces incidentally also by dreams, into whose farrago a divine lesson is sometimes slipped.
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