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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
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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Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot know.
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If we could have any security against moods! If the profoundest prophet could be holden to his words, and the hearer who is readyto sell all and join the crusade, could have any certificate that to-morrow his prophet shall not unsay his testimony!
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Where do we find ourselves? In a series of which we do not know the extremes, and believe that it has none. We wake and find ourselves on a stair there are stairs below us, which we seem to have ascended there are stairs above us, many a one, which go upward and out of sight.
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A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.
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Heaven is large, and affords space for all modes of love and fortitude.
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The whole value of the dime is in knowing what to do with it.
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The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes.
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Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief in denying them.
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We might as easily reprove the east wind, or the frost, as a political party, whose members, for the most part, could give no account of their position, but stand for the defence of those interests in which they find themselves.
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Let a man behave in his own house as a guest.
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