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Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startles out wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.

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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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Our opinions of the world, are confessions of character.
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But harder still it has proved to resist and rule the dragon Money, with his paper wings. Chancellors and Boards of Trade, Pitt, Peel, and Bobinson, and their parliaments, and their whole generation, adopted false principles, and went to their graves in the belief that they were enriching the country which they were impoverishing.
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Poverty demoralizes. A man in debt is so far a slave and Wall-street thinks it easy for a millionaire to be a man of his word, aman of honor, but, that, in failing circumstances, no man can be relied on to keep his integrity.
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Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle: endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge.
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Nature is a frugal mother, and never gives without measure. When she has work to do, she qualifies men for that and sends them equipped.
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The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
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Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.
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Calmness is always godlike.
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If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.
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All ages of belief have been great all of unbelief have been mean.
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There is always a best way of doing everything.
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Whom God has put asunder, why should man put together?
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If we live truly, we shall see truly. It is as easy for the strong man to be strong, as it is for the weak to be weak.
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