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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
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Massachusetts
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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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Most people, who have quit smoking, have had at least one unsuccessful try in the past. It is not important how many times you try to quit. The only important thing is, that eventually you stay quit
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Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.
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Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function living is the functionary.
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Patience and fortitude conquer all things.
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Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.
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The highest compact we can make with our fellow is - Let there be truth between us two forevermore.
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We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
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The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.
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Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.
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Look out! Behind you!
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The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature.
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When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.
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Duty grows everywhere--like children, like grass.
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Thus is man made equal to every event. He can face danger for the right. A poor, tender, painful body, he can run into flame or bullets or pestilence, with duty for his guide.
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It is about your outlook towards life. You can either regret or rejoice.
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The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
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A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.
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It is handsomer to remain in the establishment better than the establishment, and conduct that in the best manner, than to make asally against evil by some single improvement, without supporting it by a total regeneration.
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All natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence.
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