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O friend, never strike sail to a fear!
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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There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word.
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Eyes...They speak all languages.
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Though thou loved her as thyself, As a self of purer clay, Tho' her parting dims the day, Stealing grace from all alive, Heartily know, When half-gods go, The gods arrive.
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Quotation confesses inferiority.
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Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape, and bodily exercise on the mind.
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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.
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There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself.
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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false statement I could never stay there five minutes. But why come out? The streetis as false as the church, and when I get to my house, or to my manners, or to my speech, I have not got away from the lie.
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The Oversoul is before Time, and Time, Father of all else, is one of his children.
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
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Life loiters at the book's first page,-- Ah! could we turn the leaf.
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The man, who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight, has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world.
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All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.
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Meet your failure nobly, and it will not differ from success.
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Language is the archives of history.
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If you take in a lie, you must take in all that belongs to it.
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The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible.
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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.
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