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That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say even though we may repeat the words ever so often.
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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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
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Henceforth, please God, forever I forego the yolk of men's opinions. I will be light-hearted as a bird and live with God. I find him in the bottom of my heart, and I hear continually his voice therein.
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We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
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Thought is the seed of action but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in thought, to the end that it may be uttered and acted. Always in proportion to the depth of its sense does it knock importunately at the gates of the soul, to be spoken, to be done.
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I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
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Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
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The clergyman who lives in the city may have piety, but he must have taste.
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I suppose an entire cabinet of shells would be an expression of the whole human mind a Flora of the whole globe would be so likewise, or a history of beasts or a painting of all the aspects of the clouds. Everything is significant.
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