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Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.
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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The reverence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous sentiment. Their merit was not to reverence the old, but to honor the present moment and we falsely make them excuses of the very habit which they hated and defied.
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If thought makes free, so does the moral sentiment. The mixtures of spiritual chemistry refuse to be analyzed.
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Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims.
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Isolation must precede true society.
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The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion.
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The man who renounces himself, comes to himself.
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I am old, yet I look at wise men and see that I am very young. I look over those stars yonder, and into the myriads of the aspirant and ordered souls, and see I am a stranger and a youth and have yet my spurs to win. Too ridiculous are these airs of age.
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If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.
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The beautiful laws of time and space, once dislocated by our inaptitude, are holes and dens. If the hive be disturbed by rash and stupid hands, instead of honey, it will yield us bees.
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Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a century, and dwarfs an age to an hour.
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Instead of making Christianity a vehicle of truth, you make truth only a horse for Christianity.
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Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.
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We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come.
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