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We are always getting ready to live but never living.
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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R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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All things are moral. That soul, which within us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law. We feel its inspiration out there in history we can see its fatal strength.
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The mass are animal, in pupilage, and near chimpanzee.
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Any work looks wonderful to me except the one which I can do.
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When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.
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I quote another man's saying unluckily, that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me.
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