Ralph Waldo Emerson föddes den May 25th1803 och dog den 27 April 1882 - US writer
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In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity.
In nature nothing can be given, all things are sold
In politics and in trade, bruisers and pirates are of better promise than talkers and clerks.
In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
In skating over thin ice our safety is our speed
In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence, which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the questions that exercise us
In the hands of the discoverer, medicine becomes a heroic art . . . wherever life is dear he is a demigod.
In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours; whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity
Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession.
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