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All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.
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
Waldo Emerson
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In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in each man's skin, - seven or eight ancestors at least, and they constitute the variety of notes for that new piece of music which his life is.
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The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
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My life is superficial, takes no root in the deep world I ask, When shall I die, and be relieved of the responsibility of seeinga Universe which I do not use? I wish to exchange this flash-of-lightning faith for continuous daylight, this fever-glow for a benign climate.
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Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its being on every other creature.
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A healthy soul stands united with the Just and the True, as the magnet arranges itself with the pole, so that he stands to all beholders like a transparent object betwixt them and the sun, and whoso journeys towards the sun, journeys towards that person. He is thus the medium of the highest influence to all who are not on the same level.
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The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs through himself and all things.
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None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed.
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In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part.
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Each man reserves to himself alone the right of being tedious.
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Power is the first good.
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What we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so. We form no guess, at the time of receiving a thought, of its comparative value. And education often wastes its effort in attempts to thwart and balk this natural magnetism, which is sure to select what belongs to it.
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What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection.
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Let us stun and astonish the intruding rabble of men and books and institutions by a simple declaration of the divine fact. Bid the invaders take the shoes from off their feet, for God is here within.
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If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing.
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The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all valid minds.
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Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.
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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
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To be great is to be misunderstood.
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The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.
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It is one of the biggest blessing that you can be stupid with your true friends and behave like you shame to do elsewhere
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