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Nothing in nature is exhausted in its first use...In God, every end is converted into a new means.
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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Never try to make anyone like you: you know, and God knows, that one of you is enough.
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For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency, because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.
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The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.
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Homeopathy is insignificant as an act of healing, but of great value as criticism on the hygeia or medical practice of the time.
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I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals.
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Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life.
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He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.
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Do what we can, summer will have its flies.
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Oh, be my friend, and teach me to be thine!
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The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from.
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An empire is an immense egotism.
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We grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall Equal on Sunday in the pew, On Monday in the mall. For what avail the plough or sail, Or land, or life, if freedom fail?
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As we refine, our checks become finer. If we rise to spiritual culture, the antagonism takes a spiritual form.
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