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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
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The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity.
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Knowledge is the antidote to fear. [especially as fear often stands for false evidence appearing real!]
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Money often costs too much, and power and pleasure are not cheap.
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No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.
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No picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts. A man's power is hooped in by a necessity, which, by many experiments, he touches on every side, until he learns its arc.
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Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
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The way of Providence is a little rude. The habit of snake and spider, the snap of the tiger and other leapers and bloody jumpers, the crackle of the bones of his prey in the coil of the anaconda-these are in the system, and our habits are like theirs.
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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
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[A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand.
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The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
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Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.
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