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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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Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself.
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The peace of the man who has forsworn the use of the bullet seems to me not quite peace, but a canting impotence.
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But there are higher secrets of culture, which are not for the apprentices, but for proficients. These are lessons only for the brave. We must know our friends under ugly masks. The calamities are our friends.
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Each of us sees in others what we carry in our own hearts.
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Fashion understands itself good-breeding and personal superiority of whatever country readily fraternize with those of every other. The chiefs of savage tribes have distinguished themselves in London and Paris, by the purity of their tournure.
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Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves, the converting of the sap and juices of the planet to the incarnation and nutriment of their design.
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Life is wasted in the necessary preparation of finding what is the true way, and we die just as we enter it.
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As gas-light is found to be the best nocturnal police, so the universe protects itself by pitiless publicity.
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We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience, or we shall learn nothing rightly.
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The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man.
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By virtue of the Deity thought renews itself inexhaustibly every day and the thing whereon it shines, though it were dust and sand, is a new subject with countless relations.
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Be a football to Time and Chance, the more kicks, the better, so that you inspect the whole game and know its utmost law.
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As the traveler who has lost his way, throws his reins on his horse's neck, and trusts to the instinct of the animal to find his road, so must we do with the divine animal who carries us through this world
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In every situation do the thing you fear. If you do the thing you fear, the death of fear is certain.
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When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.
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Fear God, and where you go men shall think they walk in hallowed cathedrals.
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For each thorn, there's a rosebud... For each twilight - a dawn... For each trial - the strength to carry on, For each storm cloud - a rainbow... For each shadow - the sun... For each parting - sweet memories when sorrow is done.
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The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
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The pleasure of life is according to the man that lives it, and not according to the work or place.
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