Every hero becomes a bore at last.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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About Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882), who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society and...

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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Traveling is a fool's paradise.… I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

—Gian Vincenzo Gravina

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I was perfectly happy in my boring life before you came along.

—Elizabeth Gilbert in Love

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You're in love. That makes you actually kind of boring to people who aren't in love. You know, the sane ones.

—Claudia Gray in Evernight

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

—Frank Moore Colby

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I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again.… The future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.

—J. G. Ballard

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