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We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.
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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I hate to be defended in a newspaper. As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain assurance of success. But as soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.
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Therefore is nature ever the ally of Religion: lends her all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment.
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I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals.
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In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.
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Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and universal laws which it discloses yet it does not surprise the moral sentiment that was older and awaited expectant these larger insights.
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By God, I will not obey this filthy enactment!
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It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.
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The noblest ministry of nature is to stand as the apparition of God.
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All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle...is another riddle.
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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
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The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.
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We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
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If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect.
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The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial speech.
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It is not an arbitrary decree of God, but in the nature of man, that a veil shuts down on the facts of to-morrow for the soul will not have us read any other cipher than that of cause and effect. By this veil, which curtains events, it instructs the children of men to live in to-day.
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