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Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?
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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Commerce is of trivial import love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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Don't make a novel to establish a principle of political economy. You will spoil both.
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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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Therefore is nature ever the ally of Religion: lends her all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment.
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Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts.
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No facts to me are sacred none are profane.
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I am a willow of the wilderness, Loving the wind that bent me.
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