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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 secret of success in education is respecting the students.
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It is a capital blunder as you discover, when another man recites his charities.
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When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near.
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Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome.
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It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no person can sincerely try to help another without helping him or herself. Serve and you shall be served. If you love and serve people, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape the remuneration.
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My life is superficial, takes no root in the deep world I ask, When shall I die, and be relieved of the responsibility of seeinga Universe which I do not use? I wish to exchange this flash-of-lightning faith for continuous daylight, this fever-glow for a benign climate.
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Action is the process whereby what is not fully formed passes into expressive consciousness.
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Cowardice shuts the eyes till the sky is not larger than a calf-skin: shuts the eyes so that we cannot see the horse that is running away with us worse, shuts the eyes of the mind and chills the heart.
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Our statute is a currency which we stamp with our own portrait.
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