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In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.
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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A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.
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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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As long as civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick there will be bitterness in our laughter, and our wine will burn our mouth. Only that good profits which we can taste with all doors open, and which serves all men.
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Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man.
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God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. Always, always, always, always, always do what you are afraid to do. Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man.
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