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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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If a man carefully examine his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead. Such a creature is probably immortal.
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The crystal sphere of thought is as concentrical as the geological structure of the globe. As our soils and rocks lie in strata, concentric strata, so do all men's thinkings run laterally, never vertically.
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The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.
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The secret in education lies in respecting the student.
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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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Other world? There is no other world here or nowhere is the whole fact.
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It does not to dwell on dreams and forget to live, but it is equally foolish to ignore the past – never forget.
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It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.
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In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place.
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We are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn betrays its ancestor.
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The cities drain the country of the best part of its population: the flower of the youth, of both sexes, goes into the towns, andthe country is cultivated by a so much inferior class. The land,--travel a whole day together,--looks poverty-stricken, and the buildings plain and poor.
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Human beings cannot endure the geological chaos they encounter under the soil of their own gardens.
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You can take better care of your secret than another can.
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Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose.
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Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle: endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge.
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The glory of the farmer is that, in the division of labors, it is his part to create. All trade rests at last on his primitive activity. He stands close to Nature he obtains from the earth the bread and the meat. The food which was not, he causes to be.
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The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.
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Mankind divides itself into two classes,--benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast the first a handful.
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The shot heard round the world.
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