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If a man carefully examine his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead. Such a creature is probably immortal.
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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Many a reformer perishes in his removal of rubbish,--and that makes the offensiveness of the class. They are partial they are notequal to the work they pretend. They lose their way in the assault on the kingdom of darkness, they expend all their energy on some accidental evil, and lose their sanity and power of benefit.
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Dreams and beasts are two keys by which we find out the keys of our own nature.
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When the night is darkest, the stars come out.
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The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.
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As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
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The whole value of the dime is in knowing what to do with it.
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Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
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We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected.
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Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.
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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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Great men are sincere.
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Pay no heed to the average photographer's remarks upon flat and weak negatives. Probably he is flat, weak, stale, and unprofitable your negative may be first-rate, and probably is if he does not approve of it.
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When all shoot at one mark, the gods join in the combat.
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Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.
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The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that, if you let it alone, it will let you alone.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven depending on whether they compare it to something better and so feel disappointed and bitter or something worse and so feel relieved and grateful.
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