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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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 man is reputed to have thought and eloquence he cannot, for all that, say a word to his cousin or his uncle. They accuse his silence with as much reason as they would blame the insignificance of a dial in the shade. In the sun it will mark the hour. Among those who enjoy his thought, he will regain his tongue.
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Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth.
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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.
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Our expense is almost all for conformity. It is for cake that we run in debt 'tis not the intellect, not the heart, not beauty, not worship, that costs so much.
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Patience and fortitude conquer all things.
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The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.
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That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.
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