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The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
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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Teaching is the perpetual end and office of all things. Teaching, instruction is the main design that shines through the sky and earth.
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The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
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Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.
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Fear God, and where you go men shall think they walk in hallowed cathedrals.
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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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Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.
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We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.
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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
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