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Our distrust is very expensive.
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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It is not an arbitrary decree of God, but in the nature of man, that a veil shuts down on the facts of to-morrow for the soul will not have us read any other cipher than that of cause and effect. By this veil, which curtains events, it instructs the children of men to live in to-day.
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As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
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Let not the tie be mercenary, though the service is measured in money. Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.
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People say law but they mean wealth.
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In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present estate.
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Draw, if thou canst, the mystic line, Severing rightly his from thine, Which is human, which divine.
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What is the hardest task in the world? To think.
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Whatever we think and say is wonderfully better for our spirits and trust in another mouth.
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Every man has a vocation. The talent is the call.
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The element running through entire nature, which we popularly call Fate, is known to us as limitation. Whatever limits us, we callFate.
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Go out of the house to see the moon, and't is mere tinsel it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey.
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We begin with friendships, and all our youth is a reconnoitering and recruiting of the holy fraternity they shall combine for thesalvation of men. But so the remoter stars seem a nebula of united light, yet there is no group which a telescope will not resolve and the dearest friends are separated by impassable gulfs.
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Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present.
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Ethics and religion differ herein that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God Ethics does not.
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If you criticize a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and, instead of the poet, are censuring your owncaricature of him.
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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
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In these divine pleasures permitted to me of walks in the June night under moon and stars, I can put my life as a fact before me and stand aloof from its honor and shame.
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