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God enters by a private door into every individual.
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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R. W. Emerson
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It is time to be old To take in sail.
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Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose.
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To Be is to live with God.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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In this great society wide lying around us, a critical analysis would find very few spontaneous actions. It is almost all custom and gross sense.
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Skepticism is slow suicide.
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A healthy soul stands united with the Just and the True, as the magnet arranges itself with the pole, so that he stands to all beholders like a transparent object betwixt them and the sun, and whoso journeys towards the sun, journeys towards that person. He is thus the medium of the highest influence to all who are not on the same level.
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Be yourself no base imitator of another, but your best self.
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The craft with which the world is made runs also into the mind and character of men. No man is quite sane each has a vein of folly in his composition, a slight determination of blood to the head, to make sure of holding him hard to some one point which Nature has taken to heart.
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Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.
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Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old.
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The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling.
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When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.
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As sunbeams stream through liberal space And nothing jostle or displace, So waved the pine-tree through my thought And fanned the dreams it never brought.
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Life is not intellectual or critical, but sturdy. Its chief good is for well-mixed people who can enjoy what they find, without question.
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What you persist in doing gets easier. The task hasn't changed, but your ability to do it has increased.
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It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
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