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Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.
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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Never try to make anyone like you: you know, and God knows, that one of you is enough.
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Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old.
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We know that madness belongs to love,--what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven.
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Sometimes we receive the power to say yes to life. Then peace enters us and makes us whole.
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I covet truth beauty is unripe childhood's cheat I leave it behind with the games of youth.
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The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.
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The regular course of studies, the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin School.
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A great mind is a good sailor, as a great heart is.
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The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
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Look sharply after your own thoughts. They come unlooked for, like a new bird seen on your trees, and, if you turn to your usual task, disappear and you shall never find that perception again never, I say-but perhaps years, ages, and I know not what events and worlds my lie between you and its return.
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A friend, therefore, is a sort of paradox in nature. I who alone am, I who see nothing in nature whose existence I can affirm with equal evidence to my own, behold now the semblance of my being, in all its height, variety, and curiosity, reiterated in a foreign form so that a friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
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Do not require a description of the countries towards which you sail. The description does not describe them to you, and to- morrow you arrive there, and know them by inhabiting them.
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Sorrow makes us all children again.
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There are two laws discreteNot reconciled,Law for man, and law for thing.
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