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Thought makes everything fit for use.
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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Boston
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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There are not in the world at any one time more than a dozen persons who read and understand Plato:-never enough to pay for an edition of his works yet to every generation these come duly down, for the sake of those few persons, as if God brought them written in his hand.
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Some will always be above others.
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An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have the propensity to look for the good in every situation.
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Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man's vision of the future
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That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.
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The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion.
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The surest poison is time.
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Everything runs to excess every good quality is noxious if unmixed.
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Looking at God instantly reduces our disposition to dissent from our brother.
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The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less imports the question of authorship.
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The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.
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Man's actions are the picture book of his creeds.
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To be great, you must be misunderstood
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Heaven is large, and affords space for all modes of love and fortitude.
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Man is a piece of the universe made alive
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Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the toughfibre of the human heart. The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.
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Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant.
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The hero is he who is immovably centered.
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One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.
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It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.
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