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Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
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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When good is near you, when you have life in yourself, it is not by any known or accustomed way you shall not discern the foot-prints of any other you shall not see the face of man you shall not hear any name the way, the thought, the good, shall be wholly strange and new. It shall exclude example and experience.
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The soul answers never by words, but by the thing itself that is inquired after.
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Every thing admonishes us how needlessly long life is.
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That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.
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Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms. Pay it away quickly in some sort.
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Go face the fire at sea, or the cholera in your friend's house, or the burglar in your own, or what danger lies in the way of duty, knowing you are guarded by the cherubim of Destiny. If you believe in Fate to your harm, believe it, at least, for your good.
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Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.
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Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?.
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The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones they are what they are they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose it is perfect in every moment of its existence.
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I am a part and parcel of God.
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Beware of jokes from which we go away hollow and ashamed.
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