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Your work should be in praise of what you love.
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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We read often with as much talent as we write.
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Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts.
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Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the law-giver is before the law-receiver.
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No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.
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There are days when the great are near us, when there is no frown on their brow, no condescension even when they take us by the hand, and we share their thought.
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I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.
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Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. The mind does not create what it perceives, anymore than the eye creates the rose.
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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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The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation, and the credit of truth and honesty is as safe nor have I any fear that a skeptical bias can be given by leaning hard on the sides of fate, of practical power, or of trade, which the doctrine of Faith cannot down-weigh.
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The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.
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Yet some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise, and wherever the vein of thought reaches down into the profound, there is no danger from vanity. Solemn friends will warn them of the danger of the head's being turned by the flourish of trumpets, but they can afford to smile.
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Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.
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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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But a compassion for that which is not and cannot be useful and lovely, is degrading and futile.
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Society has really no graver interest than the well-being of the literary class.
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He is great who confers the most benefits.
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When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful, and pleasant as roses, we must thank God that such things can be and are.
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Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.
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The mass are animal, in pupilage, and near chimpanzee.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The great will not condescend to take anything seriously.
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