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All necessary truth is its own evidence.
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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Every wall is a door.
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The way of Providence is a little rude. The habit of snake and spider, the snap of the tiger and other leapers and bloody jumpers, the crackle of the bones of his prey in the coil of the anaconda-these are in the system, and our habits are like theirs.
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The virtue in most request is conformity.
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Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and that state of the mind can only be described by presenting that natural appearance as its picture.
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A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price.
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Great believers are always reckoned infidels, impracticable, fantastic, atheistic, and really men of no account. The spiritualist finds himself driven to express his faith by a series of skepticisms.
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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We say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse surveyors.
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The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.
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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
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The man, who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight, has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world.
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What we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so. We form no guess, at the time of receiving a thought, of its comparative value. And education often wastes its effort in attempts to thwart and balk this natural magnetism, which is sure to select what belongs to it.
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The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats Chambers of the great are jails, And head-winds right for royal sails.
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Life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour.
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I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature.
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Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul. What he announces, I must find true in me, or reject and on his word, or as his second, be he who he may, I can accept nothing.
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Our strength grows out of our weakness.
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Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.
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The world exists, as I understand it, to teach the science of liberty.
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Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.
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