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Man's life is a progress, not a station.
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
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When all shoot at one mark, the gods join in the combat.
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In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.
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Each man has an aptitude born with him. Do your work.
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We are the prisoners of ideas. They catch us up for moments into their heaven, and so fully engage us, that we take no thought forthe morrow, gaze like children, without an effort to make them our own.
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There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we must obey.
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What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?
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Pride ruined the angels, Their shame them restores And the joy that is sweetest Lurks in stings of remorse.
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Don't make a novel to establish a principle of political economy. You will spoil both.
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Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.
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God will not make himself manifest to cowards
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When it's dark enough men see stars.
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Be a gift and a benediction.
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A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes, by his distastes, by the stories he tells, by his gait, by the notion of his eye, by the look of his house, of his chamber for nothing on earth is solitary but every thing hath affinities infinite.
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The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.
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