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Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.
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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Take the place and attitude to which you see your unquestionable right, and all men acquiesce.
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If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
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In every landscape, the point of astonishment is the meeting of the sky and the earth, and that is seen from the first hillock aswell as from the top of the Alleghanies. The stars at night stoop down over the brownest, homeliest common, with all the spiritual magnificence which they shed on the Campagna, or on the marble deserts of Egypt.
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Self reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
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Women, as most susceptible, are the best index of the coming hour.
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I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world. With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations of nature.
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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