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The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.
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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The democrat is a young conservative the conservative is an old democrat. The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed,--because both parties stand on the one ground of the supreme value of property, which one endeavors to get, and the other to keep.
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You are constantly invited to be what you are.
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We pray to be conventional. But the wary Heaven takes care you shall not be, if there is anything good in you. Dante was very badcompany, and was never invited to dinner.
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But I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle, I leave the village politics and personalities, yes, and the world of villages and personalities behind, and pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight, too bright almost for spotted man to enter without novitiate and probation.
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What king has he not taught state, as Talma taught Napoleon? What maiden has not found him finer than her delicacy? What lover has he not outloved? What sage has he not outseen? What gentleman has he not instructed in the rudeness of his behavior?
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The terrors of the child are quite reasonable, and add to his loveliness for his utter ignorance and weakness, and his enchanting indignation on such a small basis of capital compel every bystander to take his part.
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Character is always known. Thefts never enrich alms never impoverish murder will speak out of stone walls.
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Teaching is the perpetual end and office of all things. Teaching, instruction is the main design that shines through the sky and earth.
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When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence.
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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
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I have just been conversing with one man, to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest sentiments, as well as a knot of friends, or a pair of lovers.
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It is an esoteric doctrine of society, that a little wickedness is good to make muscle as if conscience were not good for hands and legs.
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Some will always be above others.
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Though your views are in straight antagonism to theirs, assume an identity of sentiment, assume that you are saying precisely thatwhich all think, and in the flow of wit and love roll out your paradoxes in solid column, with not the infirmity of a doubt.
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Life is an ecstasy. Life is sweet as nitrous oxide.
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Every day, a little sadder, a little madder. Will someone get me a ladder?
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Be brave enough to do the loving thing.
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Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks he is free.
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When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.
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