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The Conduct of Life (1860)
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Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.
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'Tis weak and vicious people who cast the blame on Fate.
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The only money of God is God. He never pays with any thing less, or any thing else.
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Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.
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Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.
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The victories of character are instant, and victories for all.
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If I could put my hand on the north star, would it be as beautiful? The sea is lovely, but when we bathe in it, the beauty forsakes all the near water. For the imagination and senses cannot be gratified at the same time.
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A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.
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The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work-declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is beneath you, if it is in the direction of your life, nothing is great or desirable if it is off from that. I think we are entitled here to draw a straight line and say that society can never prosper but must always be bankrupts, until every man does that which he was created to do.
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The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it.
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No doubt, to a man of sense, travel offers advantages. As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man. A foreign country is a point of comparison, wherefrom to judge his own.
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A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.
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Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.
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Life is a search after power: and this is an element with which the world is so saturated—there is no chink or crevice in which it is not lodged—that no honest seeking goes unrewarded.
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Fate is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought, for causes which are unpenetrated.
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Religious literature has eminent examples, and if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find them infected with this dropsy and elephantiasis, which we ought to have tapped.
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Beauty is the form under which the intellect prefers to study the world.
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The aid we can give each other is only incidental, lateral, and sympathetic.
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In spite of Virtue and the Muse,
Nemesis will have her dues,
And all our struggles and our toils
Tighter wind the giant coils.
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The dogma of the mystic offices of Christ being dropped, and he standing on his genius as a moral teacher, 'tis impossible to maintain the old emphasis of his personality; and it recedes, as all persons must, before the sublimity of the moral laws.
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Let us learn to live coarsely, dress plainly, and lie hard. The least habit of dominion over the palate has certain good effects not easily estimated.
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There are eyes, to be sure, that give no more admission into the man than blueberries.
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A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.
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Draw, if thou canst, the mystic line,
Severing rightly his from thine,
Which is human, which divine.
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As every man is hunted by his own daemon, vexed by his own disease, this checks all his activity.
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Born:
May 25, 1803
Died:
April 27, 1882
(aged 78)
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