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Self-command is the main elegance.
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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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Don't set out to teach theism from your natural history... You spoil both.
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We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause.
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All things are moral. That soul, which within us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law. We feel its inspiration out there in history we can see its fatal strength.
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