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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.
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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As we are, so we do and as we do, so is it done to us we are the builders of our fortunes.
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This immediate dependence of language upon nature, this conversion of an outward phenomenon into a type of somewhat in human life,never loses its power to affect us. It is this which gives that piquancy to the conversation of a strong-natured farmer or backwoodsman, which all men relish.
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The philosophy of waiting is sustained by all the oracles of the universe.
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The regular course of studies, the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin School.
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We are always getting ready to live but never living.
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What is addressed to us for contemplation does not threaten us, but makes us intellectual beings.
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