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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
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Massachusetts
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Greatness once and forever has down with opinion.
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It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
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You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.
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As soon as a child has left the room his strewn toys become affecting.
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The greatest genius is the most indebted person.
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Self-love is, in almost all men, such an over-weight that they are incredulous of a man's habitual preference of the general good to his own but when they see it proved by sacrifices of ease, wealth, rank, and of life itself, there is no limit to their admiration.
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The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct.
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Though we love goodness and not stealing, yet also we love freedom and not preaching.
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These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a god- like ease and power.
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Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old.
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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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In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part.
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I wish that friendship should have feet, as well as eyes and eloquence. It must plant itself on the ground, before it vaults overthe moon. I wish it to be a little of a citizen, before it is quite a cherub.
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Take the place and attitude to which you see your unquestionable right, and all men acquiesce.
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It is one of the biggest blessing that you can be stupid with your true friends and behave like you shame to do elsewhere
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Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man.
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Each man has an aptitude born with him. Do your work.
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Nature forever puts a premium on reality. What is done for effect is seen to be done for effect what is done for love is felt to be done for love. A man inspires affection and honor because he was not lying in wait for these.
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A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude.
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Hidden away in the inner nature of the real man is the law of his life, and someday he will discover it and consciously make use of it. He will heal himself, make himself happy and prosperous, and life in an entirely different world. For he will have discovered that life is from within and not from without.
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