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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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Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
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The most Indian thing about the Indian is surely not his moccasins or his calumet, his wampum or his stone hatched, but traits of character and sagacity, skill, or passion.
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We are always getting ready to live, but never living... The wave moves onward but the particles of which it is composed do not... It cannot be but that at intervals throughout society there are real men intermixed . . . as the carpenter puts one iron bar in his bannister for every five or six wooden ones.
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If the East loves infinity, the West delights in boundaries.
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Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.
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The civility of no race can be perfect whilst another race is degraded.
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The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved.
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There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge and fox and squirrel and mole.
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The President proclaims war, and those Senators who dissent are not those who know better, but those who can afford to...Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
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When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.
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The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.
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To eat bread is one thing to love the precepts of Christ and resolve to obey them is quite another.
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