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As soon as there is life there is danger.
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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No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.
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Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.
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I wish to speak with all respect of persons, but sometimes I must pinch myself to keep awake, and preserve the due decorum. They melt so fast into each other, that they are like grass and trees, and it needs an effort to treat them as individuals.
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These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.
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An answer in words is delusive it is really no answer to the questions you ask.
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The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.
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The element running through entire nature, which we popularly call Fate, is known to us as limitation. Whatever limits us, we callFate.
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I would study, I would know, I would admire forever.
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Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.
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Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
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Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom.
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I unsettle all things.
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The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.
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I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality.
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Some men, at the approach of a dispute, neigh like horses.
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There are men too superior to be seen except by a few, as there are notes too high for the scale of most ears.
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Find the journey's end in every step.
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Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind.
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