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A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
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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I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labor and difficulty he has but to open his eyes to see things in a true light, and in large relations whilst they must make painful corrections, and keep a vigilant eye on many sources of error.
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The pest of society is egotists.
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The first wealth is health.
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I honor health as the first muse, and sleep as the condition of health. Sleep benefits mainly by the sound health it produces incidentally also by dreams, into whose farrago a divine lesson is sometimes slipped.
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The world is nothing, the man is all in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason it is for you to know all, it is for you to dare all.
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The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple.
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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.
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Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.
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These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.
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What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from the Heroic or Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans, four or five centuries later? What but this, that every man passes personally through a Grecian period.
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Chiefly the sea-shore has been the point of departure to knowledge, as to commerce. The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
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Speak the affirmative emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject.
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An answer in words is delusive it is really no answer to the questions you ask.
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The aid we can give each other is only incidental, lateral, and sympathetic.
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God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.
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