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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
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Not always can flowers, pearls, poetry, protestations, nor even home in another heart, content the awful soul that dwells in clay.
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Every word we speak is million-faced or convertible to an indefinite number of applications. If it were not so we could read no book. Your remark would only fit your case, not mine.
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Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity.
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If you don't ride in the rain, you don't ride.
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Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons.
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I am primarily engaged to myself to be a public servant of all the gods, to demonstrate to all men that there is intelligence andgood will at the heart of all things, and even higher and yet higher leadings. These are my engagements how can your law further or hinder me in what I shall do to men?
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The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved.
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Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul. The spirit sports with time.
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To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same fields, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.
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The world is his who can see through its pretension.
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Knowledge is the antidote to fear
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When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.
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Speak the affirmative emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject.
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I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.
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The whole of what we know is a system of compensation. Every defect in one manner is made up in another. Every suffering is rewarded every sacrifice is made up every debt is paid.
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Greatness once and forever has down with opinion.
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Every man believes he has a greater possibility.
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Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,-must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know.
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He that despiseth small things will perish by little and little.
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There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding.
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