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Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.
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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How much better when the whole land is a garden, and the people have grown up in the bowers of a paradise.
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O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.
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Some men love only to talk where they are masters. They like to go to school-girls, or to boys, or into the shops where the sauntering people gladly lend an ear.
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Of lower states, of acts of routine and sense, we can tell somewhat but the masterpieces of God, the total growths and universalmovements of the soul, he hideth they are incalculable. I can know that truth is divine and helpful but how it shall help me I can have no guess, for so to be is the sole inlet of so to know.
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.
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The shot heard round the world.
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That man is idle who can do something better.
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Luckily for us, now that steam has narrowed the Atlantic to a strait, the nervous, rocky West is intruding a new and continental element into the national mind, as we shall yet have an American genius.
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Plant your DREAMS and miracles will grow.
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'Well,' said Red Jacket [to someone complaining that he had not enough time], 'I suppose you have all there is.'
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Yourself a newborn bard of the Holy Ghost, cast behind you all conformity, and acquaint men at first hand with Deity.
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The President proclaims war, and those Senators who dissent are not those who know better, but those who can afford to...Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
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You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.
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Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in your speech, cries out that you are wrong and sets you right, hug him!
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