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America means opportunity, freedom, power.
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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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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No hope so bright but is the beginning of its own fulfilment.
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In these divine pleasures permitted to me of walks in the June night under moon and stars, I can put my life as a fact before me and stand aloof from its honor and shame.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.
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The secret of the world is the tie between person and event. Person makes event and event person.
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Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
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Truth is too simple for us: we do not like those who unmask our illusions.
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In the actual world--the painful kingdom of time and place--dwell care, and canker, and fear. With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy.
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The world is the perennial miracle which the soul worketh.
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The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less imports the question of authorship.
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All natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence.
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Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.
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Love is like wildflowers It's often found in the most unlikely places.
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It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men.
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All my hurts my garden spade can heal.
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Every time you wink the stars move.
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Strange is this alien despotism of Sleep which takes two persons lying in each other's arms & separates them leagues, continents,asunder.
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The course of everything goes to teach us faith.
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