American - Poet | May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
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It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
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Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.
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Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.
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Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
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Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.
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The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
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There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
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