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Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot know.
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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Let us stun and astonish the intruding rabble of men and books and institutions by a simple declaration of the divine fact. Bid the invaders take the shoes from off their feet, for God is here within.
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A man is a god in ruins.
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We are not free to use today, or to promise tomorrow, because we are already mortgaged to yesterday.
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Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn nature's oldest force is as good as new.
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Great men are sincere.
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The Gods we worship write their names on our faces be sure of that. And a man will worship something ... That which dominates will determine his life and character. Therefore it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.
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In the hands of the discoverer, medicine becomes a heroic art . . wherever life is dear he is a demigod.
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Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man.
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If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.
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All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
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Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.
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Whatever is old corrupts, and the past turns to snakes.
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Beside all the small reasons we assign, there is a great reason for the existence of every extant fact a reason which lies grandand immovable, often unsuspected behind it in silence.
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Every roof is agreeable to the eye, until it is lifted then we find tragedy and moaning women, and hard-eyed husbands.
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Be yourself no base imitator of another, but your best self.
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