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Infancy conforms to nobody all conform to it.
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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Invention breeds invention.
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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We fetch fire and water, run about all day among the shops and markets, and get our clothes and shoes made and mended, and are thevictims of these details, and once in a fortnight we arrive perhaps at a rational moment.
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In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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Our life seems not present, so much as prospective not for the affairs on which it is wasted, but as a hint of this vast- flowingvigor.
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Great country, diminutive minds. America is formless, has no terrible and no beautiful condensation.
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Nature and literature are subjective phenomena every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast
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Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?
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A man of good sense but of little faith, whose compassion seemed to lead him to church as often as he went there, said to me 'that he liked to have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and other public amusements go on.
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There are two laws discreteNot reconciled,Law for man, and law for thing.
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I have just been conversing with one man, to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest sentiments, as well as a knot of friends, or a pair of lovers.
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Don't set out to teach theism from your natural history... You spoil both.
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That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say even though we may repeat the words ever so often.
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Body cannot teach wisdom God only.
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People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.
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The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.
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Some men, at the approach of a dispute, neigh like horses.
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Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy, but in the state, and in the schools, it is indispensable to resist the consolidation ofall men into a few men.
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The world is the perennial miracle which the soul worketh.
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