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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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As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.
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An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.
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When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.
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All ages of belief have been great all of unbelief have been mean.
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Very idle is all curiosity concerning other people's estimate of us, and all fear of remaining unknown is not less so.
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Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life.
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You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. You send him to the Latin class, but much of histuition comes, on his way to school, from the shop- windows.
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The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day.
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The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions.
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Nature and literature are subjective phenomena every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast
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I am the owner of the sphere, Of the seven stars and the solar year, of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain, Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakespeare's strain.
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The end of being is to know and if you say, the end of knowledge is action,-why, yes, but the end of that action again, is knowledge.
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