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He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation but he shuts the door of truth.
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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As long as civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick there will be bitterness in our laughter, and our wine will burn our mouth. Only that good profits which we can taste with all doors open, and which serves all men.
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I am a part and parcel of God.
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Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
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I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.
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Out of sleeping a waking, Out of waking a sleep.
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We can only obey our own polarity.
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A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.
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A man complained that on his way home to dinner he had every day to pass through that long field of his neighbor's. I advised him to buy it, and it would never seem long again.
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Infancy conforms to nobody all conform to it.
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One must be an inventor to read well.
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For, whom the Muses smile upon, And touch with soft persuasion, His words like a storm-wind can bring Terror and beauty on their wing In his every syllable Lurketh nature veritable.
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Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn
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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
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As men get on in life, they acquire a love for sincerity, and somewhat less solicitude to be lulled or amused. In the progress ofthe character, there is an increasing faith in the moral sentiment, and a decreasing faith in propositions.
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