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Each age, it is found, must write its own books or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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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Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. In the divided or social state these functions are parcelled out to individuals, each of whom aims to do his stint of the joint work, whilst each other performs his.
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This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.
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The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the base.
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I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
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As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
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Do what you're afraid to do.
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