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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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~ Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory. ~
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~ The characteristic of a genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic. ~
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~ There can be no high civility without a deep morality ~
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~ Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses. Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. ~
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~ Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with projected roof Round every windward stake, or tree, or door. Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work So fanciful, so savage, naught cares he For number or proportion. ~
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~ Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven, And veils the farmhouse at the garden's end. The sled and traveller stopped, the courier's feet Delayed, all friends shut out, the housemates sit Around the radiant fireplace, enclosed In a tumultuous privacy of storm. ~
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~ In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs. ~
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~ People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. ~
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~ The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving. ~
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~ Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air… ~
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~ Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know ~
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~ The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape. ~
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~ Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities ~
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~ What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. ~
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