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Your actions speak so loud, I can't hear what you say.
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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I always seem to suffer some loss of faith on entering cities.
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The soul contains the event that shall befall it, for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts and what we pray to ourselves for is always granted.
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The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance.
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If any mention was made of homicide, madness, adultery, and intolerable tortures, we would let the church-bells ring louder, the church-organ swell its peal and drown the hideous sound. The sugar they raised was excellent: nobody tasted blood in it.
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Life is too short to waste . . . 'Twill soon be dark Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark!
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Slavery it is that makes slavery freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.
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If men would avoid that general language and general manner in which they strive to hide all that is peculiar, and would say only what was uppermost in their own minds, after their own individual manner, every man would be interesting.
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In science we have to consider two things: power and circumstance.
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You will think me very pedantic, gentlemen, but holiday though it may be, I have not the smallest interest in any holiday, except as it celebrates real and not pretended joys.
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Life itself is ... a sleep within a sleep.
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Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.
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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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There is a capacity of virtue in us, and there is a capacity of vice to make your blood creep.
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Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks he is free.
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If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it at any rate, brag.
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