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The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
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
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Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.
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A strenuous soul hates cheap success.
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The Church seems to totter to its fall, almost all life extinct. On this occasion, any complaisance would be criminal which told you, whose hope and commission it is to preach the faith of Christ, that the faith of Christ is preached.
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Draw, if thou canst, the mystic line, Severing rightly his from thine, Which is human, which divine.
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Man is a piece of the universe made alive
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Action is the process whereby what is not fully formed passes into expressive consciousness.
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