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Where there is no vision a people perish.
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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Friendship is an order of nobility from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.
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Life loiters at the book's first page,-- Ah! could we turn the leaf.
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The genius of life is friendly to the noble, and, in the dark, brings them friends from far.
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Men are lenses through which we read our own minds.
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The hero is he who is immovably centered.
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Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life.
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I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.
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Convert life into truth.
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Sleep is not, death is not Who seem to die Live. House you were born in, Friends of your spring-time, old man and young maid, Day's toil and it's guerdon, They are all vanishing, Fleeing to fables, Cannot be moored
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Without looking, then, to those extraordinary social influences which are now acting in precisely this direction, but only at whatis inevitably doing around us, I think we must regard the land as a commanding and increasing power on the citizen, the sanative and Americanizing influence, which promises to disclose new virtues for ages to come.
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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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Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.
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