“Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American philosopher, essayist, and poet, best remembered for leading the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. His teachings directly influenced the growing New Thought movement of the mid-1800s. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society. Emerson gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy of Transcendentalism in his 1836 essay, Nature. As a result of this ground-breaking work he gave a speech entitled The American Scholar in 1837, which Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. considered to be America's "Intellectual Declaration of Independence". Considered one of the great orators of the time, Emerson's enthusiasm and respect for his audience enraptured crowds. His support for abolitionism late in life created controversy, and at times he was subject to abuse from crowds while speaking on the topic. When asked to sum up his work, he said his central doctrine was "the infinitude of the private man." ([Source][1]) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson
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“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”
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“Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up”
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“Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.”
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“Imitation is suicide.”
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“What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.”
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“Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in it...”
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“Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you.”
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“Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.”
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“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.”
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“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”
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“Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.”
“You become what you think about all day long.”
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“Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at whic...”
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“There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion;...”
“None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.”
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“That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.”
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“God will not have his work made manifest by cowards”
“It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.”
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“Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.”
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