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An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.
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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Yet America is a poem in our eyes its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
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Human beings cannot endure the geological chaos they encounter under the soil of their own gardens.
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Jesus and Shakespeare are fragments of the soul, and by love I conquer and incorporate them in my own conscious domain. His virtue,--is not that mine? His wit,--if it cannot be made mine, it is not wit.
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You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God you shall not have both.
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Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.
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Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant.
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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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