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People wish to be settled only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.
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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What is there of the divine in a load of brick? What ... in a barber shop? ... Much. All.
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The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.
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Let a man then know his worth and keep things under his feet.
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And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.
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The world is always childish, and with each new gewgaw of a revolution or new constitution that it finds, thinks it shall never cry any more.
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I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
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The inmost in due time becomes the outmost.
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That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.
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Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
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There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome alwayswe are invited to work.
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If you take in a lie, you must take in all that belongs to it.
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The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that, if you let it alone, it will let you alone.
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