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Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant.
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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Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.
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Speech is better than silence silence is better than speech.
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Earth's a howling wilderness, Truculent with fraud and force.
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You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God you shall not have both.
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The eye is easily frightened.
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If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads, just one year afterwards.
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Nature is upheld by antagonism.
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Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.
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A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine. If a singer sing from a sense of duty or from seeing no way to escape,I had rather have none. Those only can sleep who do not care to sleep and those only write or speak best who do not too much respect the writing or the speaking.
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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
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The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.
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