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My life should be unique it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.
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
Waldo Emerson
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Conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children, and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism.
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People only see what they are prepared to see. If you look for what is good and what you can be grateful for you will find it everywhere.
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First be a good animal.
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Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.
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We learn that God IS that he is in me and that all things are shadows of him.
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Some eyes threaten like a loaded and levelled pistol, and others are as insulting as hissing or kicking some have no more expression than blueberries, while others are as deep as a well which you can fall into.
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Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
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The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.
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The most Indian thing about the Indian is surely not his moccasins or his calumet, his wampum or his stone hatched, but traits of character and sagacity, skill, or passion.
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Thought makes everything fit for use.
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What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of childhood? St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed.
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The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments.
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Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdom which cannot help itself.
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To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone. The tradesman, the attorney comes out of the din and craft of the street and sees the sky and the woods, and is a man again. In their eternal calm, he finds himself.
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The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side has its translation, through humanity, into the spiritual and necessary sphere, where it plays a part as indestructible as any other.
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No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.
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Whom God has put asunder, why should man put together?
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No facts are to me sacred none are profane I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.
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The religions we call false were once true.
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