“Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.”
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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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“Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.”
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“The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship”
“The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.”
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“To fill the hour──that is happiness.”
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“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety. Finish every day an...”
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“Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.”
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“Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.”
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“If the single man plants himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abides, this huge world will come around to him.”
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“If there is any period one would desire to be born in, ⎯ is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all m...”
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“Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside.”
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“There is creative reading as well as creative writing.”
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“Books are for nothing but to inspire”
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“People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad.”
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“The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.”
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“Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.”
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“We are wiser than we know.”
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“His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong”
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“I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.”
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“By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.”
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