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Everything Ralph Waldo Emerson!

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I’m trying to be Emerson this text, but I’m Thoreauly confused.

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“The only person you are destined to become, is the person you decide to be.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else, to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (via thinkwholesome)

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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (via fuckyeahwritersquotesandwisdom)

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Always do what you are afraid to do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson  (via thatkindofwoman)

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It is not the length of life, but the depth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (via mysimplereminders)

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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (via lazypacific)

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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People say sometimes, “See what I have overcome; see how cheerful I am; see how completely I have triumphed over these black events.” Not if they still remind me of the black event. True conquest is the causing the calamity to fade and disappear, as an early cloud of insignificant result in a history so large and advancing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Circles” (via skyfullof)

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How often must we learn this lesson? Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations. The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man’s limitations, it is all over with him. Has he talents? has he enterprise? has he knowledge? it boots not. Infinitely alluring and attractive was he to you yesterday, a great hope, a sea to swim in; now, you have found his shores, found it a pond, and you care not if you never see it again.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Circles” (via skyfullof)

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Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (via the-accidental-transcendental)

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For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency, because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brillant picture. Language is fossil poetry.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Poet (via skyfullof)

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