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Adult males are what their moms designed them.
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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No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.
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The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose.
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In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it.
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It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.
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Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and universal laws which it discloses yet it does not surprise the moral sentiment that was older and awaited expectant these larger insights.
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No matter how often defeated, you are born to victory.
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The man in the street does not know a star in the sky.
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When the vain speaker has sat down, and the people say 'what a good speech,' it still takes an ounce to balance an ounce.
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In these divine pleasures permitted to me of walks in the June night under moon and stars, I can put my life as a fact before me and stand aloof from its honor and shame.
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There is a crack in everything God has made
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It all begins when the soul would have its way with you.
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Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the sufferer if not, attend your own work, and already the evil begins to be repaired.
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The household is a school of power. There, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life.
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The French woman says, 'I am a woman and a Parisienne, and nothing foreign to me appears altogether human.'
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I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.
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The lover of letters loves power too.
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A nation never falls but by suicide.
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I unsettle all things.
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We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
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