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Frankness invites frankness.
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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I am a part and parcel of God.
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Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation.
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Men are lenses through which we read our own minds.
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The river knows the way to the sea: Without a pilot it runs and falls, Blessing all lands with its charity.
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Skepticism is slow suicide.
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Cultivate an attitude of gratitude, of giving and forgiving. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
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We learn that God IS that he is in me and that all things are shadows of him.
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Never try to make anyone like you: you know, and God knows, that one of you is enough.
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Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquillity that religion is powerless to bestow.
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Delicious is a just and firm encounter of two in a thought, in a feeling.
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If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular thing, and every thing, and every man.
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Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,-must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know.
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