“Excite the soul, and the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear; the world itself loses its solidity, nothing remains but the soul and the Divine Presence in whic...”
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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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“Hitch your wagon to a star.”
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“What is success? To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false...”
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“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but the principles are few. The...”
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“Self-trust is the first secret of success.”
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“The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.”
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“God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please; you can never have both.”
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“O Lord! Unhappy is the man whom man can make unhappy.”
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“When there is no vision, people perish.”
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“By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurl'd; Here once the embattl'd farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.”
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“A wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interests than it is theirs to find his weak point.”
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“A woman's strength is the irresistible might of weakness.”
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“It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.”
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“What torments of grief you endured, from evils that never arrived.”
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“Some of your hurts you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived, But what torments of grief you endured From the evil which never arrived.”
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“We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.”
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“It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence whether a man be behind it or no.”
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“Love, and you shall be loved.”
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“He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.”
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“The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.”
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