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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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Cupid is a casuist, a mystic, and a cabalist,-- Can your lurking thought surprise, And interpret your device, . . . . All things wait for and divine him,-- How shall I dare to malign him?
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We fancy men are individuals so are pumpkins but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.
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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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The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must be writ is musty the next day.
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What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
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There is nothing in history to parallel the influence of Jesus Christ.
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One must be an inventor to read well.
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