Conversation is an art in which a person has all humanity for their competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Conversation is an art in which a person has all humanity for their competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Only the great generalizations survive.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To finish the moment, to find the journey’s end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It will never make any difference to a hero what the laws are. Their greatness will shine and accomplish itself unto the end, whether they second him or not.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Our strength grows out of our weakness. The indignation which arms itself with secret forces does not awaken until we are pricked and stung and sorely assailed. A great man is always willing to be little.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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