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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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Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.
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I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.
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A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine. If a singer sing from a sense of duty or from seeing no way to escape,I had rather have none. Those only can sleep who do not care to sleep and those only write or speak best who do not too much respect the writing or the speaking.
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We never touch but at points.
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The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. Every influx of atheism, of skepticism, is thus made useful as a mercury pill assaulting and removing a diseased religion, and making way for truth.
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He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that.
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Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.
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My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation.
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It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual wants, never to please his fancy.
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Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature.
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In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.
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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects.
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When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.
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Do not craze yourself with thinking, but go about your business anywhere.
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Ethics and religion differ herein that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God Ethics does not.
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