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God has delegated himself to a million deputies.
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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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.
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Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools. A wise man will see that Aristotle platonizes.
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We are not free to use today, or to promise tomorrow, because we are already mortgaged to yesterday.
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It is curious that Christianity, which is idealism, is sturdily defended by the brokers, and steadily attacked by the idealists.
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Each of us sees in others what we carry in our own hearts.
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People wish to be settled only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.
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Never read any book that is not a year old.
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